China is the key to the modern world and the West is in danger of being left behind

China now dominates in every technology that defines the modern world.

According to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s 2025 Strategic Technology Tracker released last week, China leads in seven out of eight AI categories, 13 out of 13 advanced materials and manufacturing technologies, all seven categories of defence, space, robotics and transport, nine out of 10 in energy and environment and five out of nine in biotechnology, genes and vaccines.

China’s global technology lead is almost complete, yet the country has only half as many billionaires as the United States, and that number has grown at half the rate this year. So how is this possible?

And China is supposedly a Marxist-Leninist society, and Karl Marx was very suspicious of technology when he wrote in Wages, Labor and Capital (1847): “The instrument of labor, when it takes the form of a machine, immediately becomes a competitor of the worker himself.”