Yes, indeed. That is what Taub explains in his Sex Model, in which Northern Europe is ahead of East Asia. But globally, the Worker Caste Age still has to reach its peak and clear the remnants of the Merchant Caste Age, which got a second wind with Neo-Liberalism. In the US, the last great Merchant Caste Power, the oligarchs control the government. In East Asia, the now-rising Working Caste Power, the government controls the oligarchs. Case in point in the cutting down to size Alibaba founder Jack Ma. The Working Caste will change the global economic and financial system but closing down tax havens, money laundering, speculative currency trading, etc. The big change will come when China’s digital yuan start to undermine the dollar as the world’s resever currency.