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On Made In China 2025.
On several occasions I run across these Chinese kids here in
Georgia Tech, what surprises me is the type of courses they study.
Almost all of them under Chinese government scholarship here to
study in Americas best universities are studying courses that have
to do with the future.
They study artificial intelligence, systems science and
engineering, and hard core courses for tommorows World, their
social lives are zero and they always hold sophisticated
telephones. Very suprizing, but China is a country that thinks
ahead and every Chinese is a potential suspect.
Have you ever heard of the concept, made in China 2025? It is
Chinese Development blueprint that had sent fear around the world.
It is meant to transform China from a labor intensive economy that
makes toys, cloths, pharmaceutical to one that engineers advanced
products like robots electric cars, and space explorations.
The Chinese are believed to be the most determined species of
the human race. Once they set their minds to achieve a goal nothing
stops them.
Earlier today, I listened to a commentary where the presenter
clearly stated that the Chinese state would not mind stealing
technology and intellectual property just to meet their goal.
I also read elsewhere, that Chinese kids are sent in droves to
study unique courses like artificial intelligence, information
systems, system science, robotic engineering, systems engineering
in American schools. Surprisingly this is a deliberate state
policy. You never see a Chinese student on scholarship studying
arts, social sciences or religion.
What is most troubling is that they study these courses in
America and United Kingdom top ivy leagues. They are here on full
state sponsored scholarships.
While the economies of the world including the United States are
exporting production distribution and exchange in an era of
globalization, China is pursuing an agenda of localizing
production.
They promote a policy to get almost 70 percent of their
production value chain domiciled locally. This is very dangerous
because in the future the entire world will answer to China in
terms of production. My concern with China is how can a country and
a people get it so right? Always ahead of the rest. Always scheming
at a time our own kids are holidaying and eating barbecue in
foreign restaurants.
The more I study the Chinese, the more I fall in love with these
guys. They have leaders that think. They have leaders that plan for
tommorow. More interesting, even children as young as five years in
China know in every transaction they have to eat up their opponents
or be eaten.
The big question: Can we ever have a country built on values?
Unfortunately, this is our biggest handicap in Nigeria. Our leaders
think only of themselves. Selfish and greedy, and some of our young
people think only of what they can scoop out of these greed.
Vision 2020 we planned, this is 2019, nothing to write home
about. Even the government themselves are busy politicking and
killing themselves with no regard to attain the goals of vision
2020. Open a discussion with a federal minister on how his ministry
plans to meet the vision 2020 goals he has no idea what you are
talking about.
Our hospitals are still consulting clinics, women still give
birth at home without medical support, our roads in disrepair, our
schools abandoned and our politicians clueless.
Is there hope for our country that we can ever plan and execute
with precision like the Chinese?
Sometime I wonder, do we embrace the Chinese and be recolonized
or do we continue to align with the west?
These young Chinese kids in Western schools studying robotics
and artificial intelligence are the ones to compete with our own
kids 20 years from now at a time our educational system and
universities are dead and lecturers still going on strike. I fear
for my country and our future, to be candid I fear! –
-Princewill Odidi, a Development analyst write from Atlanta.
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