Unlike Britain, they put national industrial supremacy first and foremost.
It is too late to recapture our industrial supremacy because we are no longer an industrial economy.
The case serves today as a poignant reminder of the cost, to millions of lives, of Britain's industrial supremacy.
That purpose-built utopia - along with the myth of the USSR's industrial supremacy - was blown away that night of 26 April 1986.
In short, it will be a contest for the mastery of the world's commerce and for industrial supremacy.
Such a turning of the tail on our industrial supremacy has probably never before been mooted in this country.
This nation has long honored engineers as the heroes of its rise to industrial supremacy.
Japan is a prime example of the fact that there is no close relationship between scientific discovery and industrial supremacy.
Who were the winners and losers in the race for industrial supremacy in Victorian Britain?
Japan and Germany, he argues, "are countries out to win industrial supremacy, which leads to economic supremacy, which then leads to military and geopolitical supremacy."
