And their conclusions are wrong because of the breathtaking ignorance. Even when the author mentions Joseph Needham, he clearly hasn't looked further and snaps back into the tired (and wrong) stereotype of the creative Westerner inventing things and the robotic boring Asian engineer that copies, brings it to production or at best maybe makes some fine tuning refinements. The level of intellectual and ethnic arrogance still drips reeking from the article.
Just look in the comment section for that article and you see someone claiming Scotland was more inventive than China, which he claims was an under performer. Utterly preposterous and clearly also someone who has not read or learned about Joseph Needham, his massive seminal work about the technology of China, and what he learned about China: namely that it was probably the most inventive society throughout most of human history even while under Imperial dynastic rule.
This is why the West will lose. Even when they are being out competed they cannot reflect on their failings or give up their implicit racist assumptions. It would probably take something like a Chinese Star Destroyer hovering over the White House. However even then, they might still try to claim that it was stolen from a top secret US military design and therefore not original creative work.
