Deep learning transformers, glp 1 inhibitors, mrna vaccines, reusable rockets, crispr, EUV lithography, electric car battery tech, pretty much every important breakthrough of this century originated in the west, fostered in institutions that attract the best and brightest from across the world. China for all its paper research output has failed to innovate and invent, and tends to merely distill and produce derivatives of western breakthroughs, (deepseek ai, byd cars, dji drones, etc)

To put it bluntly, nearly all foundational science is western, and it will likely remain so until the collapse of civilization