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At the same time, China is a more united place than Europe which consists of various countries with their own economy and culture. And to be fair, some countries have had their fair share of tech giants, like Spotify, Klarna or Ericsson from Sweden for example.
Nokia (was massive) Siemens ASML SAP
Also Soundcloud, T-Mobile, yes Spotify ... A lot of open source projects are based in Europe: Gitlab, Mastodon, Peertube, Mobilizon, a few Linux distributions, LibreOffice... I think at least the Free Software and libre culture world is pretty active, here.
Plus aside from consumer facing software, the tech sector also exports a lot of engineering. There is German wielded train tracks all around the world, car parts, Airbus (planes), tools, logistics software and robotics, companies like SAP do lots of behind the scenes stuff...
(And half the internet giants weren't even founded in arbitrary places in the USA, but more or less just in California (Google, Apple, eBay, PayPal) the other half is more spread over the country, like Microsoft: New Mexico, Amazon: Washington, Facebook: Massachusetts if I'm not mistaken.)
Speaking of Linux distros, openSUSE Tumbleweed is an awesome German one that's not well-known outside the EU. Maybe someone will discover it this way and give it a try.
Fedora can't hold a candle to Tumbleweed's approach and philosophy. 😉