Comment by magicsmoke

This is going to answer a very important question for the future. Is American tech dominance the result of some magic cultural mojo born from American values that can't be replicated in a different cultural sphere, or is it something that can be replicated if you pump enough money into the right educational, institutional, and industrial structures while completely divorced from American culture. Since the fall of the USSR, the global zeitgeist has been that if you want to be a developed country, adopting American values in some form is necessary sooner or later. China is challenging this assumption and many developing countries will be watching the outcome.