That’s the issue I’m taking about. US won’t let China build it’s infrastructure. Neither will may other countries due to the diplomatic issues that come with it. Since the design is controlled by the government, that seems like it would make licencing it to interested parties outside of China more difficult. No one wants strings attached, and using thorium reactors as a diplomatic weapon isn’t good for the adoption of the technology.
Neither will may other countries due to the diplomatic issues that come with it.
The diplomatic issues that come with cooperating with China are pretty much only due to retaliation by the USA and the like. Without that retaliation, it’s not like it’s causing diplomatic issues with other nations (especially those other nations who are already cooperating with China). Which relates to “US won’t let China build it’s infrastructure”; they have no right to disallow them building infrastructure, and the only way they can prevent that is through strongarming and use of force, economic or physical. Telling other countries that they also can’t trade with country X because country X is working with China is just economic bullying.
US has absolutely no say regarding where China builds infrastructure. China is currently the major trading partner for vast majority of countries in the world, and US isn’t even a close second. And it’s pretty clearly that lots of countries actually do want Chinese technology as evidenced by the fact that China is building infrastructure across the globe.
That’s the issue I’m taking about. US won’t let China build it’s infrastructure. Neither will may other countries due to the diplomatic issues that come with it. Since the design is controlled by the government, that seems like it would make licencing it to interested parties outside of China more difficult. No one wants strings attached, and using thorium reactors as a diplomatic weapon isn’t good for the adoption of the technology.
The diplomatic issues that come with cooperating with China are pretty much only due to retaliation by the USA and the like. Without that retaliation, it’s not like it’s causing diplomatic issues with other nations (especially those other nations who are already cooperating with China). Which relates to “US won’t let China build it’s infrastructure”; they have no right to disallow them building infrastructure, and the only way they can prevent that is through strongarming and use of force, economic or physical. Telling other countries that they also can’t trade with country X because country X is working with China is just economic bullying.
US has absolutely no say regarding where China builds infrastructure. China is currently the major trading partner for vast majority of countries in the world, and US isn’t even a close second. And it’s pretty clearly that lots of countries actually do want Chinese technology as evidenced by the fact that China is building infrastructure across the globe.
Yeah I’m not disagreeing. I just think that the technology would be more widely accepted and implemented if it didn’t come with strings attached
China actually does a lot of technology sharing without strings attached https://jakartaglobe.id/business/tech-transfer-why-indonesia-likes-partnering-with-china