China is working on a copy of the F 15 Eagle fighter jet and they have named it J 16. This is just their latest known endeavor in copying Americans. In E commerce they have copied Twitter Uber Google Ebay etc. U.S.A has a machine on Mars. Quite a feat. Doesn't China need to be innovative too?
中国正在复制F 15鹰战斗机，他们命名它为J 16。这只是他们最新的模仿美国人所做的努力。在电子商务方面，他们已经复制了推特，Uber，谷歌，易趣网等。美国在火星上有一台机器。真是一项伟业。中国不需要创新吗？
A2A. China is not a superpower. It has never proposed that it would become one. To be a superpower you need to be both economic and military dominance that it projects its power over areas and countries far beyond its own borders. To date modern China has maintained its military strictly for the defence of its territory.
区对区，中国并没有制霸全球，也从来没打算要问鼎天下。欲为超级大国，你需要有经济和军事上的统治支配力，在远超国界之外的各个地域和国家部署你的权力。而当下新中国的军事仅为维持其领土的防御。
OK let’s talk about copying & imitating in business. Does this happen world wide? Yes it happens everyday in every country. In business we have a euphemism called - "being competitive”. It consists of the practise of imitating what your competition is doing successfully. You see this literally everyday and it has been going on since business strategy was created. In your country is there only ONE hamburger or chicken or coffee or drugstore chain or cable TV network or one smart phone that has different features than all the other ones? NO because 95% of the time business all over the world function by imitating success and 5% of the time they are disruptors and innovate something different.
好吧，让我们谈谈商业领域的复制和模仿。这事儿全世界都有吗？是的，它每天都在每个国家发生。在商业上，我们有一个委婉的说法叫“竞争”。这包括模仿正在大获成功的竞争对手。你每天都会看到这一点，而自从商业战略问世以来，它就一直存在。你的国家是否只有一种汉堡包，或一种鸡肉，一种咖啡，一家药店连锁，一家有线电视网，一个跟其他所有手机有着完全不同功能的智能手机呢？不是的。因为全世界的商业，其中95%是在效仿成功模式，而只有5%是来踢馆的，搞点革新什么的。
When Japan auto industry nearly killed the US auto industry in the later part of 20th century; did they reinvent cars? NO. They improved the quality of what US manufacturers had designed to give the consumer what they wanted and what they wanted was Japanese cars not American ones which forced US car manufacturers copy Japanese manufacturers. IRONIC isn’t it?
在20世纪下半叶日本汽车工业几乎摧毁美国汽车工业的时候，是他们重新发明了汽车吗？不，他们提高了美国制造商者的设计质量，给了消费者他们所想要的。所以当人们想要的是日本车而不是美国车时，这又迫使美国汽车制造商抄袭日本制造商。这很讽刺不是吗？
A number of people believe Apple is not a company that invents. Rather it takes what others have already invented and applies those things in a different way. Yet Apple is rated by many as innovative.
许多人认为苹果是不是一个原创公司。相反，它摘取了别人已经发明的东西并把这些东西以不同的方式付诸应用。然而，苹果被很很多人奉为革新者。
To a degree what China has done to date is similar to what Japan did in the 1970’s and for the next 30 odd years. China is the world’s factory in large measure because it can produce things in great volume and at lower overall cost compared to others giving western businesses & multi-national companies higher profit margins.
在某种程度上说，迄今为止中国的行为类似于日本在70年代以及之后剩余的30年里所做之事。中国是巨型规模的世界工厂，因为它能用比别人更低的总成本生产大量物品，从而给西方企业和跨国企业带来更高的利润。