Meron na bago technology sa solar panel na gawa ng Switzerland and being marketed worldwide by India. It has a smaller footprint, thin, less weight and higher capacity to store energy. What was China during the 70s? Actually, China is just a worldwide sweatshop for consumer items just as Taiwan was the sweatshop during the 70s and 80s. For certain heavy engineering products, South Africa is still the sweatshop of the world. To accept China's hyped "leadership" is defeatist and negates any desire for the Student Council to improve the economy. Pag dating sa mga high tech, China is still a laggard. Wala naman silang homegrown high technology na ipagmamalaki. Puro kopya lang sila. Iphone nga gawa China eh di pa ma perfect. They tried to copy the maglev train eh dami namatay.
When they started opening up during the 70s, literally, walang kapera pera ang China. They closed their economy for several years so dahil wala trade, wala pera. I asked them during the 80s kung bakit ayaw nila mag export to earn dollars.. Ang sagot sa akin, di namin kailangan ng dollar, yuan ang pera dito so we just have to make yuan. Sabi sa akin which up to now eh nakatanim sa utak ko, we just produce one product in one province and sell it to another province and we make money. I guess, nowadays, they treat countries as just a province so they produce in the US and sell that product to Europe. What is mony in the first place? Nowadays, it is just some computer bytes ciphered by the Central Bank and reflected in its books. If the Student Council would only think a little bit of that basic principle and apply the annuity formula in creating more money, we could be one of the powerhouses in the world - what with Filipino engineering capability and lateral thinking? Studies have shown na ang Pinoy lang ang meron nun which the Pinoy always applies to the max.
