> China, with less IT history and a large market, may be in a good position to analyse and extract a small subset of Western IT standards for internal adoption.

> China, with less IT history and a large market, may be in a good position to analyse and extract a small subset of Western IT standards for internal adoption. What makes you think that China won't be beholden to the same path-dependence as the West, given they're already dependent on the same standards and implementations?