You are living in the past.

China intends to build an even bigger particle accelerator than the LHC and has an ambitious cutting edge space program with much force behind it. They will take the lead in discovery which will pay countless dividends to their society on many levels.

The west already fell behind Europe in new science and soon they will be behind Asia as well.

I wish our own pathetic debt and social justice focused "leaders" had half the vision of the Chinese.