Backwater? Growing power?

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That’s who I saw things growing up in the 70s-80s. China was full of starving farmers and not much else. And yeah, Japanese products went from having a well-deserved bad rap to Americans going, “Holy shit! They’re out competing us! Make it stop!” (In cars and electronics anyway.)