Agreed, and incredible given how recently the cultural revolution stymied Chinese intellectualism for decades. Imagine if in the mid 20th century the West had a

Agreed, and incredible given how recently the cultural revolution stymied Chinese intellectualism for decades. Imagine if in the mid 20th century the West had a movement to ban theoretical science research, culled universities, and moved scientists to hard labor. Would the west have been able to bounce back like China has? The eastern giant we have burdened with our manufacturing processes, logistics, etc has encoded these processes into their identity and are now the experts. Is this bad? Does it HAVE to influence geo-politics so greatly? Can't we all just get along? I think about this often.