.: Will China Outsmart the U.S.?

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Will China Outsmart the U.S.?

Three months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Angus Echols, a member of DuPont’s executive committee, began shaping the chemical giant’s plans for the coming decade. The U.S. would soon be at war, he explained in a series of memos and high-level discussions, and the company needed to aid the effort. But it also needed to think far ahead. When the war ended, Echols argued, women would want to buy cheap stockings. And where was DuPont on this crucial matter?

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New york times article

[edit:] I feel like we have a silent war with china. For example I feel like SOPA has a lot to do with all the money we're losing because of their counterfeit software black market trading. I mean imagine working for photoshop and losing 900 because some guy in china knows how to burn a cd.

18 comments:

  1. More to come soon, PLease check back soon!!

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  2. DuPont is a pretty interesting company it seems.

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  3. It seems like an interesting matter, though we were left at a cliffhanger.

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  4. idk, but either way, its scary

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  5. I think they already have in many ways but Dupoint will be interesting

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  6. Hmm a clever company DuPont seems

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  7. China owns too much of the dollar atm anyway...

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  8. I hope we never go to war with China...

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  9. My HS teacher always told us to take Chinese in college. Cause, in his words, "theyre gonna be takin over the whole freakin world, beleive that"

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  10. Forward thinking those Dupont execs...

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  11. What happened to all the ass pictures? I was kind of enjoying them.

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  12. I feel like we have a silent war with china. For example I feel like SOPA has a lot to do with all the money we're losing because of their counterfeit software black market trading. I mean imagine working for photoshop and losing 900 because some guy in china knows how to burn a cd.

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