> A reminder: the difference is that Japan has already failed in areas such as mobile internet, robotics, Fifth-generation computers, and space technology....LLM and so on. Japan is still clinging to the substantial profits of its internal combustion vehicle industry, and in battery technology it has fallen far behind.

So what?

> Japan clearly does not fall into this category.

A country that rose to become a major power in the 1800s. Got destroyed during ww2. Then rose again to be a mjor power.

> In fact, only China and the United States possess this mindset.

If that was the case, post ww2 germany and japan would not exist.

> Germany and Japan have small national territories, making it easy for them to fall into early industrial leadership and then rest on high-profit laurels without further ambition.

Have you no understanding of history prior to the last 10 years?