It is also funny in a different way. Many people don't realise that they live in some sort of bubble. Many people in "The West" think that they are still the center of the world in everything, while this might not be so correct anymore.

In the U.S. there is 350 million people and EU has 520 million people (excluding Russia and Turkey).

China alone has 1.4 billion people.

Since there is a language barrier and China isolates themselves pretty well from the internet, we forget that there is a huge society with high focus on science. And most of our tech products are coming from there.