This article is wrong in so many levels.
First, the forerunners of technological advancements had always been the Asian countries. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China just to name a few, and only the US engineers have integrated some of these useful technologies produced in Asia into their own technology/innovation. While there had been numerous bright engineers hailing from the United States after the Second World War, we can't deny the fact that Japan, Taiwan and China mainly carried the torch for technological advancements and had been responsible for creating the framework of the technology that we are enjoying today.
Nah. The named countries are certainly much better at refining and packaging technologies and exploiting their potential. They don't best America and other Western countries in the initial invention stakes. And Chinese inventiveness peaked several thousand years ago. These days they just nick stuff.
As for 'blockchain', I'd be interested to know how much of an effect the language barrier has had, but I struggle to point to any significant technical development introduced by non Westerners. America hosts some of the biggest exchanges, has the most sophisticated financial instruments for crypto like GBTC and CME etc and probably has the most crypto owners. Despite that they may well throw it all away with onerous demands. It's something they should be conscious of.