>what’s more revealing is how Chinese firms have taken the best tech and adapted it. Only felt like skimming the article but it seems that quote is at its base

>what’s more revealing is how Chinese firms have taken the best tech and adapted it. Only felt like skimming the article but it seems that quote is at its base. There's a difference between "adapting" other people's work and "innovation". There is also a difference between manufacturing products and creating the original idea for those products and making them.