The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully tested a rocket with a speed of five or six times the speed of sound on the 24th. At present, China, the United States, and Russia are the first echelons in this field. Japan has taken an important step and will join forces with Australia, India, and Europe. Wait for the country to become the second echelon. Does Japan have the confidence to challenge China?
Japan’s development is limited by natural conditions, as well as inappropriate economic and technological strategies. AP picture
Japan has increased its investment in hypersonic weapons in recent years, and the plan is obviously aimed at China. At the same time, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced the “Defense White Paper” for 2022, which has double the number of pages compared to last year’s version, and also touches on the Taiwan Strait issue. Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi pointed out in his foreword: “China poses a serious challenge to the order in the Indo-Pacific region and to Taiwan’s security.” What is this attitude? Japan thinks that it is a military power in the Asia-Pacific region, and wants to help the United States maintain order in the region and stop the process of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation?
No matter how advanced Japan’s technology is, and how many sophisticated projects can get stuck in China’s neck, once it has to compete with China, it is not a qualified opponent at all. Unless Japan returns to the situation 30 years ago, when there was a serious economic gap between China and Japan, Japan will spend more money. The mind is in vain. Again, the size of the economy determines the outcome of any contest.
In 1992, Japan was the world’s second largest economy with a GDP of US$3.91 trillion, while China’s GDP was only US$426.9 billion. Japan was more than nine times ours. Let’s talk regarding per capita GDP. At that time, China’s per capita GDP was 366 US dollars, Japan’s per capita GDP was 31,400 US dollars, and Japan’s per capita GDP was 86 times that of China. The income of washing dishes in Japan is many times higher than that of Chinese professors and scientific research talents. Japan with such national strength is qualified to publish the “Defense White Paper” of today’s content, but it is not that the Japanese do not know that they have been lost for 30 years. Japan has missed the PC era, In the Internet economy, the previous semiconductor industry was destroyed by US sanctions. The shortcomings exposed by Japan are not as simple as a bubble. Japan is basically a country without innovation capabilities.
Japan’s scientific inventions were very good in the past, and it can be said that they “surpassed the United States and caught up with the United States”. In 1945, the Japanese company Busicom successfully manufactured the world’s first computer using chips. However, Japanese technology is difficult to achieve. Because Japan only has calculators, it does not have the function of storing data programs, and the programs disappear every time the command is completed. What should I do?
Marcian Hoff, a young engineer at Intel in Silicon Valley, found innovative inspiration from Busicom’s project. At that time, Intel invented the integrated circuit (IC), so why not use integrated circuit technology to make the functional components of the calculator, plus the memory. A programmable chip? With Hoff’s intelligence and high-tech in Silicon Valley, Intel launched the 4004 chip (CPU, Central Processing Unit) in 1971. This programmable chip has a 4-bit computing function and can process 26 English letters and simple decimal calculations. , this is just the beginning. Three years later, the 8-bit processor 8080, which is 20 times more powerful than the 4004, was launched. Intel became the world’s first computer processor company. At this time, Silicon Valley technology was ahead of Japan for many generations.
There are always people who say that Japanese technology is really ahead of us, and China must learn with humility and at the same time maintain friendship with Japan, otherwise Japan’s 1,000s of precision patents can stymie China’s industrialization development. Joke, Japan only has upstream technology, how many people can it support? If you don’t sell your technology, can Japan support your wife and work? This is like a small stall owner who sells needles and threads on the street. You said that the garment factory would not be able to start a job without needles and threads. The manufacturer should be afraid of you “stuck in the neck”? Isn’t this a joke?
Japan’s IT innovation and technology cannot become a great thing. Today, the single-day supreme also relies on the automobile industry to support the overall situation. It still has a high per capita GDP, so the income of the aunt who washes dishes is OK. However, China is breaking out in new energy vehicles, and in the next 10 years You can challenge Japan’s status as a major auto country in 2010. If Japanese cars are not good enough, and China’s corners are overspeeding, Japan’s middle class will lose a lot of money, and Japan will gradually become a low- and middle-income country. You can say “Taiwan is the case. Your business”, even “the South China Sea is your business”? It is the right way for Japan to let go of its illusions and rebuild its economy and technology. If you want to compete with China, wait for a while!