China managed it by keeping US tech out despite, initially, not having alternatives to Google et al.
In winner takes all industries you MUST be protectionist and develop domestic alternatives.
China managed it by keeping US tech out despite, initially, not having alternatives to Google et al.
In winner takes all industries you MUST be protectionist and develop domestic alternatives.
> and develop domestic alternatives.
Therein lies the rub for the EU. They think they can just regulate such alternatives into existence, yet have time and time again failed to provide such alternatives.
With exceptions. Linux being the most obvious example.
Linux is no EU project, but very much global. It just happens that its originator (who, quite tellingly, has been living and working in the US since the mid-90s) is Finnish.
I was using Linux for work while Linus was still in Europe.
All the large US tech companies are also global. Cuts both ways.