Unthinking Majority wrote: I'm more than willing to discuss topics around China or China-US relations if they're offered up in good faith. It's not going to happen here.
Unthinking Majority, un prompted, and completely off topic in a thread about ethical billionaires wrote: When has China invented anything ever in the last 30 years without stealing it? This is 21st century Chinese imperialism. Extracting silver and hauling it back to the metropole like Spanish conquistadors. But yeah, they have the moral high ground lol. Show me power and I'll show you some dirtbags abusing it.
One thing I will say to Musk's credit, looking through his company's patents: https://patents.justia.com/company/tesla
This is a man who recognizes the innovation coming out of China & India and how to capitalize on it.
It also suggests that the OP is underreported, if anything, due to its limitation on 'country of research' rather than 'country of researcher'.
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Carnegie Endowment wrote:
Conventional wisdom often suggests that technological breakthroughs proliferate in an environment of free markets, free speech, and democracy. In short, if you want to innovate, you need to operate like the United States. But over the past twenty years, China has transformed from a technological backwater into an innovation powerhouse.