Recently, some foreign netizens asked on foreign social networking sites why Huawei was sanctioned by the United States, but Xiaomi was not? Aren't they all Chinese technology companies?
Another foreign netizen answered this question with a long article. This is the most straightforward and clear answer I have ever seen. To sum up, his statement is that the great powers of the East should have been the "new continent" of wealth opened up by the Western manufacturing industry.
However, the emergence of innovative technology companies like Huawei, who master their own core technologies and solve all problems independently, is completely out of the control of the West, so they have to be targeted.
Xiaomi is different, although it can create its own and have its own brand, but every time it sells a mobile phone, it can also bring more profits to the West.
This article divides the process of the West's entry into the great powers of the East to acquire wealth into four stages.
In the beginning, the large eastern countries had a large population and abundant resources, as well as relatively complete infrastructure, and a huge domestic demand market that could be expected in the future.
As a result, this continent has become a sweet spot in the eyes of Western countries and a "new continent" of the economy, attracting manufacturing giants from all over the world to invest here.
Later, more labor brought profits to the West, and the big countries in the East, although they only obtained meager processing profits, but he also began to contact the world's advanced manufacturing and industrial technology, and began to establish his own technical system and national brand.
After that, the big eastern countries used the accumulated wealth and technology to start independent production in the high-tech field, established their own domestic brands, and began to compete with foreign technology brands.
However, at this time, Western giants still have the core key technologies, Xiaomi is such a typical example, he has the strength to compete with foreign brands, and even because of his growth, he can squeeze out a lot of Western brands, and also has the capital to go to sea, so that he can occupy a place in India, Southeast Asian countries, Europe, etc.
But in the final analysis, Xiaomi is still a mobile phone that wins with a system, and the core hardware chips, sensors, and even the tempered glass of the screen are still from the West, Japan and South Korea, and every time he sells a mobile phone, a lot of profits are still given to these countries.
At this time, scientific and technological innovation enterprises such as Huawei appeared, they broke through the blockade of key core technologies in Western countries, and they used their independent innovation capabilities to manufacture their own mobile phones, computers and other technology products.
Operating system, chips, he has the ability to challenge Western giants and Japanese and South Korean technology predators. At this time, the West began to panic, because they were changing the rules that the West had set, and if it was allowed to continue like this, it would be difficult to control future growth.
The West found that they had lost their position and control, so they wielded the big stick of sanctions.
This answer really scared me. When I read it, I suddenly remembered the story of the "turkey scientist" conceived in our Chinese science fiction book "The Three-Body Problem".
In the world of turkeys, most turkeys only know how to pursue a material life and do not want to think and change. There is a turkey who loves to think and change, and he is a "turkey scientist".
Later, the scientist discovered a pattern, which he told all turkeys: every morning at 11 a.m., food was bound to arrive. The turkeys cheered, it was an epoch-making moment when they mastered the laws of survival.
However, at 11 o'clock on the day the turkey scientists released the news, the food did not arrive, and the turkeys were all sent to the slaughterhouse.
Originally, this world was a rule set by some "forerunners", and when the "latecomers" wanted to break this rule and had their own thinking and independent ability, the forerunners would not hesitate to wave a stick to smash the latecomers.
However, they do not know that the Chinese have always had the innovative spirit of "blue is better than blue", "the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves", and they also have the modern proverb of "master Yi long skills to control Yi".
In the past 100 years, the West has been the "forerunner" and we are the "latecomers". If we push back another thousand years, the degree of civilization creation and social prosperity in Tang Dynasty China was not comparable to that of the West in the Middle Ages at that time, so there were no absolute predecessors and latecomers.
What China needs today is the spirit of "striving for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" and the courage to break through the shackles of Western sanctions.
Whether it's Huawei, Xiaomi, or BYD, we just want to challenge such rules. Domestic products should be self-reliant. Why do Chinese like to buy their own country's products now? Patriotic enthusiasm is part of it, but more importantly, our domestic products have the quality and technical strength to compete with foreign brands.
This generation of post-90s and post-00s really carried the banner of patriotism. This is not something that a few Western countries can suppress by saying that sanctions, and China has long passed the era of the "world factory" mentioned in the article. We are moving towards "the world's R&D center" and "the world's science and technology power".