The question then becomes is SV the best place for technology to be built for India/Malaysia/Vietnam or others. My guess is that the answer is no, and after the

The question then becomes is SV the best place for technology to be built for India/Malaysia/Vietnam or others. My guess is that the answer is no, and after the success of China we'll see protectionist policies that ensure that the answer is no. A lot of the power of US companies comes from US branding, which I think still holds at the individual consumer level. But at the country policy level, is the US still the gold standard that developing economies should aspire too? It was pretty clear to people living in the west that cracks have been forming for a long time, but the COVID situation has enough propaganda potential paint various government structures in a different light.