> I remember hearing how the Chinese couldn’t innovate; only copy. Japan in the 1950s and 1960s was viewed as a copy-cat manufacturer of cheap stuff. A few dec

> I remember hearing how the Chinese couldn’t innovate; only copy. Japan in the 1950s and 1960s was viewed as a copy-cat manufacturer of cheap stuff. A few decades later, and things changed. There was a joke about this shift in the movie Back to the Future.