Sorry but research is today more advanced and innovative in China than the research in US.
Maybe 10 years ago, this was likely true, but today US are copying on China. Look research and scientific publications, China rules again.
China is equipped with best technologies for research. Check in Nature how many manuscripts are from Chinese Universities.
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The U.S. is in serious trouble, economically. I don't mean that to say we're in trouble at this minute, but we are in trouble in the long term. At some point we decided that our country should become a green theme, genteel society that didn't pollute and didn't have mundane industrial jobs. We succeeded. China, OTOH, has removed all the green from the visible light spectrum, and utilized low and moderately paid folks by the many millions in those uninteresting mundane industrial jobs. While they are steadily building robots to replace those jobs, they still make heavy use of manual, cheap labor. So, we have two extremes when comparing US and China. China ideology is not what I want and does not impress me. But, for this post I set the ideologies aside.
What the US should have done was to remain an industrial power while converting to a clean industrial power, so as to have the best of both worlds. As it stands, our industrial infrastructure is antiquated. Most of our GDP is in real estate, and much of that is not new production (just changing hands).
YouTube has a number of blogs by Americans and others living in China. In these blogs, the real knowledge of China is exported for our view. This knowledge is not found in US journalism nor is it supplied much by the Chinese. It's an eye opener to view these blogs (SerpentZA is a good one). I'm not trying to be pro China or anti US (after all, I live in the good ole USA). However; the obvious facts put forth by these bloggers indicate a new China with glimmering, new cities (like the huge city Shenzhen, for example) - where *nothing* is older than 10 years, and the skyline glitters with the newest, tallest sky scrapers. Newish cities are not everything - I like old country boy stuff since that's what I am. But it speaks to general prosperity.
When the tariff war started, the Chinese found it hard to retaliate, excepting for agricultural product. Our manufacturing has become so decimated that it is often almost impossible to find a domestic variety of an item - including - yes - even screws. Some time ago I found myself purchasing chinese screws because there were.no.us.equivalents. The problems are real, but easily ignored by the segment of US society that is in control, because they still have jobs, or don't need them.
I seriously don't know how American inertia keeps us going. We must have had a large store built up in the past.