The fact that areas where China dominates aren’t the norm and need to be individually spelled out ends up proving the case.
Sorry, what? This is what I wrote: "China already dominates in several high tech sectors, has parity with the West in many others while it's still catching up in some." What was individually spelled out? I put the 3 situations in parallel with each other; if you somehow thought that one isn't the norm (I guess you read English to mean whatever your imagination wants it to mean), then that means that all 3 possible scenerios are not the norm LOL
Otherwise, the presumption is that U.S. firms have the largest market shares and presence in any given sector.
In any given sector? So all I have to do is pick some and you lose? You asked for these to be individually spelled out, ok?
5G telecom
Electronic vehicles and batteries
Rare Earth processing
Who has the largest market share and presense?
Chinas growth is catch-up growth (hence the slowdown in recent years) and thus can be expected to be faster than the U.S. for a fairly long period of time.
Well, for the past, that was more and more true. It's less and less true now, with many leading tech sectors already in China's favor, but your conclusion that China will outgrow the US for a fairly long period of time is correct. Who cares about showing work as long as you got the right answer, right? LOL
Just diminishing returns to capital.
Oh it's very very diminished especially when the US spends more resources trying to sabotage others than actually improving itself. That's a losing battle.
As for the U.S. pushing the technological frontier - pretty topical that say, the U.S. was first to market with mRNA vaccines or LLMs and Nvidia GPUs are the talk of the town or U.S. oilfield/fracking technologies causing US oil production to increase substantially or U.S. cloud service providers having a near global monopoly, among countless others.
So according to your "logic," the one who feels the need to "individually spell out" fields where one's own country dominates actually ends up proving that said domination is not the norm, right? Is that what you said in your first sentence?
By the way, the talk of the town ain't Nvidia; it's always China, from its direct tech breakthroughs along the path to being the first and only nation to be semiconductor/lithography independent to just political moves such as banning US parts for its own government use. China's always on everyone's mind in America while it's own technological progress is on the minds of the Chinese.
Hey look at your Commerce Secretary panicking about China's innovation, outwardly stating that the US needs to use more underhanded tricks, asking for help cus she knows the US has no chance alone. You should try to calm her nerves, assure her that China's just catching up; it can't innovate. No need for her to do or say these embarrassing things, right? LOLOL
And that was
before Huawei flipped her the bird.