Pivot from what? China is only just now becoming an actual innovator in science and tech right now. India will get their in the next decade And their economies are far more mature than most African nations.
I don't think you're reading my posts or catching my point. I'm basing everything I'm writing on the moves the US made during the last World War and framing my responses under the concept that they can take advantage of another world war.
If history has taught us one thing it that a country can come up QUICK in science and technology by picking off their brightest minds in the middle
How do you think a 1-trick pony like the USA or a backwater ass nation like the USSR got the nuclear bomb done so quickly? They stole scientist, information, secrets, whatever in the middle and aftermath of the last world war.
African nations will not get to the point China is at now by selling their people as mercenaries man.
Reading comprehension is your friend. The first examples I gave I gave were counter-intel and cyber-terror. I've lived in Kenya and I can tell you that they got the seeds to have a tech explosion but the government is too corrupt to allow for actual capitalism.
Hence my point in a strong-arm leader forcing the issue getting people employed and trained in these concepts. This harkens back to how Hitler managed Germany after the fall of the Weimar Republic.
You're talking checkers and I'm talking chess, breh. Countries can't just come up without serious setbacks somewhere else... somebody's got to pay for it. For China it was their own people (see Mao's Great Leap Forward). For India it's basically the super-elite feeding off the super poor coupled with investments and backing from the UK and its expatriate population.