{"id":142301,"date":"2025-12-12T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142301"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:00:17","slug":"us-green-tech-involution-echoes-mistake-of-chinas-qing-dynasty-before-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142301","title":{"rendered":"US green tech involution echoes mistake of China\u2019s Qing dynasty before collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 1865, when a British entrepreneur built a demonstration railroad near Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi saw not progress but danger \u2013 of disruptions to feng shui, imperial graves and rural order \u2013 and had the tracks torn up.<br \/>\nTwo decades later, when a Chinese-built coal line threatened to steam too close to sacred grounds, Cixi\u2019s solution was not innovation but regression. She ordered that the locomotive be replaced with horses.<br \/>\nBy clinging to tradition in the face of technological transformation,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3336278\/us-green-tech-involution-echoes-mistake-chinas-qing-dynasty-collapse?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 1865, when a British entrepreneur built a demonstration railroad near Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi saw not progress but danger \u2013 of disruptions to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}