I used to be as sceptical as you are, until someone living in china for a decade explained to me people in business no longer exchange emails, but they exchange

I used to be as sceptical as you are, until someone living in china for a decade explained to me people in business no longer exchange emails, but they exchange wechat contact via qr codes then have group work discussion in wechat. Then, for the first time i thought novelty is coming from the east and not the west ( i live in europe). The only last thing that gave me a tiny little bit of hope, was that even in China, the top scientists working on advanced R&D tech still come from the west. But for how long ? I would say max 5 years. I'm still betting on the next apple or google coming from china.