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Could someone please list the top 10 technological innovations that originated in China?

How about top four?

Paper, printing, gunpowder and compass.

I downvoted the parent comment but your response is also disengenuous. Unless I’m allowed to claim credit for Rome’s victories the ‘China’ that invented those things shares nothing with the China being discussed right now.

>shares nothing with the China being discussed right now.

Seems like apples to oranges, assuming the implied comparison is with western post-industrial age nations, which began industrializing centuries ago, as compared to decades ago with China.

They share the familial authoritarianism that is the explicit governing model for every version of "China".

I down-voted your answer because those are only 4 ancient, general technologies.

I’m sure the list is much longer than 10, that’s why I asked for the top 10. I’m talking about IP from the last, say, 20 years.

Why was I down-voted? It was a sincere question. Did I strike some nerve?

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