Reference News Network reported on January 9 Taiwan United News Network's article on January 4 was titled "BYD, Chinese Academy of Sciences win the United States, Taiwan no longer limits the ideological stamp", pointing out that the consequences of the island's underestimation of the power of the mainland are worrying. The
article stated that after the beginning of 2024, some foreign media continue to badmouth mainland China's economy; but the objective events and data that it still cannot stop are unfolding one by one. For example, within one day on January 3, there were two pieces of news that overturned many people's existing impressions: First, BYD officially surpassed Tesla in pure electric vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2023, with a price of 526,000 versus 485,000. It ranks first in global sales; another is the number of highly cited papers by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which beat Harvard University for the first time and climbed to the top of the world. Both of these data,
, are not trivial matters. The former is an industrial pearl leading the future transportation power of mankind, while the latter is a brain power center representing the most cutting-edge science of mankind, and is the crystallization and laurel of intelligence.
And more importantly, these transcendences may not be one-off incidents, but watershed events that represent a turning point in future trends. The
article points out that even so, people's response to this change is still slow. The most significant comparison is that Tesla has lost even to BYD in selling pure electric vehicles, but its market valuation is ten times that of BYD.
The problem is not whether Tesla is overvalued, but that BYD and more Chinese things and achievements are undervalued. This is a thinking inertia that may have been followed for nearly a century: that is, the United States is the center of global politics, economy, military, science and technology and other affairs. The United States is the natural pioneer and hegemon in all fields. If the illegal phenomenon, report or statement is not false, it is deliberately exaggerated. The
article stated that just as the number of highly cited papers in mainland China surpassed that of the United States in 2022, everyone was living as usual, without any alarm; and in early 2024, when the number of highly cited scholars even reached global academic institutions such as Harvard University, Even after being defeated by a state-led research institution in mainland China, it still caused few ripples.
But from the number of papers to the number of top intellectual elites, mainland China’s gradual surpassing of the United States reflects a trend that will never be reversed. Similar trends are not just one or two, but are comprehensive and universal phenomena. For example, the three medium-voltage DC electromagnetic catapult tracks on the aircraft carrier Fujian were recently shown for the first time under CCTV cameras, which is a technological subversion of the United States. The
article believes that this kind of conscious or unconscious underestimation of mainland China that is inconsistent with the real situation is especially serious in Taiwan. Due to years of political propaganda, Taiwan has unthinkingly regarded Mainland China as a country of fraud, concealment and deception, thus crumpling up all objective arguments about it like white paper and throwing it into the trash can, even leaving it like morning fog. Also evaporates in the sun.
This kind of behavior leads to unreasonable contempt and contempt for mainland China's power, and makes wrong judgments and decisions on corresponding political affairs. It often takes Beijing's appeals or warnings directly as air. The
article pointed out that from the victory of BYD and the Chinese Academy of Sciences over their opponents in the United States, it can be seen that Taiwan can no longer be trapped in its own ideological stamps and must conduct a deep reflection to make a decision that is truly realistic.
On June 30, 2022, the complete vehicle rolled off the production line at BYD's Hefei base. (Photo by Zhang Duan from Xinhua News Agency)
