> behind the us and western europe. you completely missed the point of the graph, kudos. > russia was behind the us and western europe was china behind as well ? yes. is china still behind ? no is russia even more behind ? yes. how come ? well the chinese didn't just tear down everything like monkeys, they kept working on what they had, they kept communism and now china numba wan unironically and russia is a shithole. > the "product" in this case was 2 and sometimes 3 or more decades behind the competition.  unlike chinese, right. > you don't "improve" your way out of that. xi disagrees
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