I play an RTS game called Age of Empires 2, and even if a civilization was an age behind in tech it could still outboom and out-economy another civ if the population ratio was 1 billion : 300 Million. Like it wouldn’t even be a contest. I don’t understand why China or India wouldn’t just spam students into fields like STEM majors and then economically prosper from there? Food is very relatively cheap to grow and we have all the knowledge in the world on the internet. And functional computers can be very cheap nowadays, those billion-population countries could keep spamming startups and enterprises until stuff sticks.
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Europe and America has a 200 year head start in industrialization, China has only been really industrialize for 40 years, India a fraction of that. So when you have multi-generations head start, it will take a long long time to reach parity.
China is producing a lot STEM talent and it shows with their scientific publication productivity, patents, and EV/solar breakthroughs, but it’s still going to take some time given the early head start by West.
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