This problem only occurs in capitalist economies where finance capital directs development. Meanwhile, all the critical economy in China is state owned. In fact, the share of private industry in China has been shrinking. https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2024/chinas-private-sector-has-lost-ground-state-sector-has-gained-share-among

lol I have worked at places that did that

The difference is that they're not doing it at the expense of hollowing out their domestic industry. They're supplementing their own industry by building additional industry around the world.

A surefire indication that the CIA isn't orchestrating the current protests in Pakistan can be inferred from the conspicuous lack of coverage in Western media outlets. Typically, such pro-democracy movements against military dictatorships are met with enthusiastic applause and extensive reporting. However, given that the military establishment in question is an ally of the West, this particular instance has been met with a deafening silence from the press.

Not really given that they're only a generation or two behind. People thought it would take a decade for China to get where they are now which only took a couple of years in practice.

Why would they have to replicate this work given that it's all open source?

And that means the death of western chip industry in the near future. China used to account for around 40% of sales for US chip makers. Losing 40% of the existing market is an existential threat to survival of any company. On top of that, once China ramps up its domestic industry it will start competing with western companies on the global market which will cut their revenue even further. We already saw how the west is utterly unable to keep up with China with stuff like solar cell production and EVs, chips are next.

They tend to be more efficient. However central planning in China which ramped up production yet has reduced demand, means an excess supply.

That doesn't really follow. You'd have to explain how you think ramping up production led to reduced demand exactly. Meanwhile, it's not excess supply if you have customers around the world who want your product.

In a capitalist, closed system, they would have ramped down production, but also wouldn’t have had the capital to ramp up production so quickly.

That sentence doesn't make sense. Companies don't voluntarily ramp down production under capitalism.

If they weren’t seen as a strategic asset, then Europe and USA wouldn’t care that China is subsidizing cheaper products. They dont want their car industries dead as then they are dependent on China.

I think you missed my point here. It's fine for the US and Europe to want to keep their industries alive. However, what we're seeing is that they are not able to compete with state driven planning using capitalist markets. So now they're starting to engage in non market behavior of putting tariffs on Chinese goods because capitalism is not proving to be competitive.

Indeed, it's hard to imagine that a bunch of the most psychopathic and narcissistic people are going to be able to last long living in a bunker. We already saw how regular people can't handle lockdowns during the pandemic.

I think it's definitely an issue that the code gets sent over. While, as onoki points out, the providers promise to keep the data private this still opens up a problem that their infrastructure could be compromised.

I'm not too familiar with tooling for Python, but my experience is that you get fairly limited support in dynamic languages unless you start adding hints. Ultimately, a static type checker can't resolve information that's not there.