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Japan matured into a B2B export machine, while China is still caught in the shallow B2C economy and assembly-level exports. China can flood the world with cheap stuff, but the real battlefield is in B2B, where Japan dominates global supply chains.
Even in recent times, Japanese makers supply both active/passive components to iPhone 17, etc. Japanese firms have shifted focus from cheap electronics to industrial-use and professional-use markets, where the real money is. It’s also where long-term national power is built.