> Right now the PRC is looking like the adult in the room

Only if you ignore history.

Didn't the PRC violate every known labor/enviromnetal/human-rights standard to become the top in manufacturing?

https://matthewekahn.substack.com/p/what-role-did-regulation...

The US did the same thing. Environmentalist and workers rights movements date back to the 19th century. China's position on this is that the western nations that already developed are trying to pull the ladder they used up and wag a finger with false morality with the intent of maintaining global hegemony.

	▲	thesmtsolver2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> The US did the same thing. Except that there were no global standards at the time. You can't point to any single country and say they were doing worse. They all were bad. But China actively flouted established international norms. Now that is behind in AI it is clamoring for controls for others. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3692695 > are trying to pull the ladder they used up Every country spies and steals but it is the scale we are talking about. China does it at a scale that dwarfs any historical or current comparisons. China doesn't have any grounds here when they turn around and complain about India copying its playbook: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/renewables/chi...