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Signs This Is China’s Century
Recently, it came to my attention that a new programming language was hitting the technology world. This is the world’s first programming language based on classical Chinese. Already volunteers have written dozens of programs with it, such as one based on an ancient Chinese fortune-telling algorithm. The new language’s developer, Lingdong Huang, graduated with a degree in computer science and art from Carnegie Mellon University in December. The language is called, wenyan-lang, and it marks an enormous sea change in the technology world.
Just as being the world’s reserve currency has helped the American dollar, the fact that most computer languages are derived from English, means coding from all over the world can find its way into America and be leveraged. There is a real cross-pollination which helps American technology more than they would like to admit. In fact, I feel American technology is now looking to the US government to slow China’s technology surge.
The desire to hold China down would seem to be one of the most obvious reasons for the trade war. The attacks on Huawei seem more politically motivated than intelligence motivated. Huawei has been under attack by the US government for years now, but last year the company went from 3rd to 2nd among smartphone makers. Additionally, American allies appear to think Chinese 5G might be better and even more secure…
