(02-28-2017, 04:39 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:Quote:In no way can China be considered a major player in the IT K-wave that got underway after 1980.
No? China has no leading software companies? No presence in the semiconductor/consumer electronics industries?
Do tell.
Did they have them in the 1980's? According to M&T what sets up a country for future leader role is beginning a new K-wave. The issue is pioneering a new K-wave, not participation later on. Britain got credit for pioneering the industrial revolution through their textile innovations in the 1760's through 1780's. The fact that Americans stole the technologies and transferred them here in the 1790's did not make America a candidate for the hegemon in the 18th century.