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Can someone name one innovative or disruptive technology that has come out of China in the last 20 years? Honest question.

I am admitting ignorance here. I have this assumption that many Chinese companies just copy/refactor existing ideas and apply them to their protected market.

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Lower-priced but "lower-quality" is one of the quintessential properties of a disruptive technology. You can probably apply this to all electronics manufacturing, from smart phones to consumer drones. Could smart phones have become so ubiquitous if each cost over $1000 to buy?

isn't that enough? they have a much larger population so if they copy then they could still become much larger and end up winning in the long run

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