How on earth is Switzerland supposed to be the top innovation leader in the world, it should be China for heavens sake. I mean what on earth does Switzerland have that makes anyone here actually interested because this is the only time this year I have heard about that nation in a single sentence
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Lol wut. You can read the link for the methodology and it takes a more per capita approach. But Switzerland is a leader in innovation. Best university in the EU is ETH Zürich, they have CERN and Zürich is one of the best places to be in robotics. I can go on and on. Switzerland is agurably the best country to live in.
Main problem in Japan seems to be demographics and I don‘t think immigration would ever work in East Asia. That region is just not that well integrated with the rest of the world. East Asia would see sudden spark of players rising to prominance and then fade just as quickly. Japan had at some point 2nd highest GDP per capita. It was the 2nd largest economy on earth and was challenging the US and now it‘s nowhere neae the US in any metric.
Japan's historically conservative industrial policies caused it to miss out on IT technology and the consumer digital industry. However, Japan remains strong in chemistry, materials, and automation, which has prevented it from rapidly losing its manufacturing base like the United States.
I think this is a good thing
Whoever becomes PM will always be America's dog. At least she's vile enough that other countries may find it off putting
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This reminds of the pandemic preparedness index, lol
But it does reflect the western mindset that treats innovation not as a creative human endeavour but as an act of asset acquisition. When anyone files a PCT international patent they do so through WIPO office in Geneva Switzerland, it does not mean Switzerland created the patent or has anything to do with innovation, but it is where the patent is physically registered and as such they consider Switzerland as the "innovator" for having the "asset". This practice of stealing credit for other's work is just a manifestation of inherently theft based western culture
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The ones right next door are an outright embarrassment by comparison despite coming from the exact same roots. Crazy how much 50 years of mental colonisation can change a population
there are plenty of Malaysian Chinese who are ideologically Westernized and discriminate against mainland Chinese, some cases being the worst in the world, look up the Malaysian rapper Namewee. This netizen group mentioned in the article are likely to be the Chinese-educated Chinese from the private Chinese-medium schools. Also, the Malaysian Chinese are fighting a racially-charged flame war/lawfare with Malay nationalists right now because the Malay politicians are competing to prove their racial credentials by how many Chinese they can get into legal trouble, so the Malaysian Chinese are looking for opportunities to counter.