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China and USA
Submitted by SirMotis (not verified) on October 4, 2011 - 5:58pm.
China is ancient and now modernizing. The Chinese are mostly still Third-World, but they also are 2nd and 1st World or at least emerging into First-World. They are still behind us and they will not catch up unless and until their people have more opportunity to be free to be inventive as we are here in the U.S. They have a wonderful inventive history contributing much to the World in the past. Under repressed societies innovation is often stifled because smart people tend to resist repression and inadvertently draw repressive attention. Amongst a Billion people there must be tens of thousands of brilliant potential innovators that never saw opportunity or inspiration.
They won't catch up but we could fall behind.
