CHINA’S PRODUCTIVITY SCAM: THE NUMBERS THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE China has dumped billions into “innovation.” Built new labs. Graduated more engineers. Flooded the globe with patent filings. But for all this smoke, there’s no fire. Productivity—true economic output per worker—has flatlined. Or worse, gone backward. Economists call it the “high-tech, low-productivity trap.” I call it state-sponsored stagnation. When your research is controlled by the Communist Party, and your best minds are churning out junk patents to satisfy quotas, you’re not innovating—you’re inflating a balloon of lies. China’s R&D isn’t driven by genius—it’s driven by bureaucrats chasing targets and companies sucking at the subsidy teat. The best breakthroughs don’t come from Beijing’s backroom committees. They come from bold men…
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