Why Chinese Tech Doesn't Need America

It seems odd to imagine that any ambitious company would ignore the United States, the world's largest economy and home to the world’s biggest spenders. But for today’s and tomorrow’s generations of China’s Web companies, shunning the U.S. is exactly what they’re doing. And that is the right approach.

The country’s biggest Internet companies have built themselves into goliaths by riding the boom of Internet and smartphone use in China. Even with slowing economic growth, China’s tech companies have plenty of room to roam in their home country, and in India, Brazil, Southeast Asia and other population centers that aren’t the U.S. of A. Expansion won’t be a cinch, but these companies are battle-tested by a highly competitive domestic tech industry -- the likes of which most U.S. tech companies have never seen.