> its getting a bit scary about how far USA is behind Asian countries in high tech
Yeah right.
Cambodia, North Korea, Myanmar, Mongolia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Laos, Thailand, Nepal, Russia, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Which of those are leading the world in "high tech"?
China's only consequential tech company is Huawei. South Korea has Samsung, SK and LG. Taiwan has TSMC, Pegatron, Quanta. Japan has Sony, Nintendo, Canon, Hitachi, Panasonic and one or two others that are relevant.
It's amazing how far ahead the US remains after so many decades.
That's a partial list of large US tech companies. Asia has nothing like it, and that's before getting into the vast number of US software & cloud services companies (Workday, ServiceNow, Splunk, Twilio, Cloudflare, Datadog, Palo Alto Networks, Akamai, etc.), of which Asia has no comparable list.
Besides that, Asia isn't a country, it's silly to pretend they're somehow one unit. They're all competitors. It's equivalent to pretending Europe or Latin America operate as combinations.
Show me the Asia equivalent of AWS (Alibaba's 1/5th size clone?). The world lags embarrassingly, the US has a ten year lead in cloud services.
Tencent is a gaming & entertainment company. Baidu is a languishing search company that never got outside of China. Alibaba is an advertising platform that does nothing special. ByteDance is mostly social media, there's nothing special about that either (see: FB, Twitter, Snap, Pinterest, etc).
China is the only individual country that comes close to competing with the US in tech and they're still well behind in most tech segments and surpass the US in none other than digital payments.
> Japan has Sony, Nintendo, Canon, Hitachi, Panasonic and one or two others that are relevant.
Add Nikon to the list, especially in the context of chip fabbing (They and Canon are one of the few companies that make fab equipment not necessarily of the same caliber as ASML, but similar vein.).
Yeah right.
Cambodia, North Korea, Myanmar, Mongolia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Laos, Thailand, Nepal, Russia, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Which of those are leading the world in "high tech"?
China's only consequential tech company is Huawei. South Korea has Samsung, SK and LG. Taiwan has TSMC, Pegatron, Quanta. Japan has Sony, Nintendo, Canon, Hitachi, Panasonic and one or two others that are relevant.
It's amazing how far ahead the US remains after so many decades.
Apple, Intel, AMD, Cisco, nVidia, Qualcomm, Google, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Micron, Texas Instruments, Lam Research, Applied Materials, Western Digital, Seagate, Broadcom, NetApp, Adobe, Facebook, Salesforce, VMWare, Dell EMC, HP, Intuit, Marvell, Oracle, Analog Devices, Microchip Technology, Citrix, Xilinx, Maxim Integrated, KLA Corp, Tesla, Illumina, Agilent, Intuitive Surgical
That's a partial list of large US tech companies. Asia has nothing like it, and that's before getting into the vast number of US software & cloud services companies (Workday, ServiceNow, Splunk, Twilio, Cloudflare, Datadog, Palo Alto Networks, Akamai, etc.), of which Asia has no comparable list.
Besides that, Asia isn't a country, it's silly to pretend they're somehow one unit. They're all competitors. It's equivalent to pretending Europe or Latin America operate as combinations.
Show me the Asia equivalent of AWS (Alibaba's 1/5th size clone?). The world lags embarrassingly, the US has a ten year lead in cloud services.
Tencent is a gaming & entertainment company. Baidu is a languishing search company that never got outside of China. Alibaba is an advertising platform that does nothing special. ByteDance is mostly social media, there's nothing special about that either (see: FB, Twitter, Snap, Pinterest, etc).
China is the only individual country that comes close to competing with the US in tech and they're still well behind in most tech segments and surpass the US in none other than digital payments.