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No, the GP's comment is an attempt to correct the mistake you were so kind to outline. There's no reason we must stick with the approach set by a previous set of leaders who turned out to be short-signed and naive, and course corrections start with outlining the problems and contradictions of the present course.
It was political will that created that economic efficiency, that you're now trying to convince us is just a fact of nature.
> Economic nationalism and high tech are incompatible.
China is economically (and traditionally) nationalist - that's why they subsidize and protect their important industries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421633
Peak ideology.
> Economic nationalism and high tech are incompatible
Except in China?
China cannot produce high technology without inputs from all over the world. NOBODY can! That's what I mean when I say that nationalism and tech are incompatible. Free trade and transparent borders make technological progress faster, arbitrary restrictions and impediments to trade impede it. The knowledge that underlies the technological advances must be spread in order to produce future technologies, so it will be spread. There is no way to hold back the process of technological advance without destroying humanity itself, and so there's no way to keep technology locked in one nation, no way to maintain an eternal advantage.