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Originally Posted by Dale
I'd be interested in the community's opinion about expanding FRC to China in a big way.
On one hand it's a good way to build transnational relations with one of the biggest economies on the planet. Increasing communication and ties between our counties is a good thing, much like having Chinese students come to western universities is positive.
The contrary view is that China is significant competition to the west. FIRST was originally founded on the idea that we needed to step our game in order to compete. The URL is usfirst.org, after all. Having a huge China FRC presence would consume FIRST resources and donations not to mention slots at championships.
Well reasoned thoughts would be interesting to hear.
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FRC is not likely to be big, at least not soon, because of the very high costs involved. Other programs are well established already - like FLL, FTC, VEX.
As far as competition goes, my own view is that raising the level of technology anywhere in the world will eventually help everyone in the world. (Don't mean to sound too philosophical...)
FRC is established in many other countries - I don't see China being any different. CUYRA wants to inspire interest and creativity in their students the same as all the other countries involved in FRC do.