Obviously not everything is a race, and adoption matters much more than invention, but was interesting seeing China, France, and Britain’s (and I think Canada maybe?) fusion teams one upping their fusion length records. I think my money is still on China, but I’m not a fusion expert so I’m not quite sure hoe far apart all the contenders are from each other.
I know I follow it as much as I can. They will absolutely be the nation to do it (assuming there isn’t some final, impossible barrier to practical energy production).
And they will lead the 2nd industrial revolution or whatever we end up calling it. I think that’s why there’s so much desperation from the U.S. and the west to go to war. It’s not purely because they do capitalism better then capitalists. It’s because they are on the verge of this energy revolution (bye bye oil, petrodollar, hello commercial reactors in Africa and South America, mutual relationships, etc)
I’ve read that the current industrial revolution going on in China is actually more like the 4th industrial revolution.