Reflections on China's Rise to Technology Leadership

In a previous life, I was working in venture capital. One of my jobs was to look for opportunities in China. And at that time, you know, what made the most sense was to find something that worked in the United States and then replicated in China. So it was a very rational thing to do. But also, I think it made sense given the state of China's technological development at that point. Now, if we look at today, we have companies that truly are innovative in a global, even civilizational way," he says.