When one is talking about the rest of the world catching up to China, I love the idea.....I mean, it sounds great. But I think we have to concede that catching up to China actually might mean, having an organization that scouts kids from about 4 years old to find potential talent and have them start training by 6. And by 8 having those kids training 4-6 hours a day with school being secondary.
A government that pays for this also would help. And adults who feel that their kids would want this as their future because of how revered TT stars are.
Then, with the adults, you have to realize that part of why CNT training is so effective is that the CNT trains as a team. It is just worth noting. If all of Europe or Europe, Japan and Korea all got together to train, the idea of there being a top coach overseeing and assigning coaches to players, and determining what training each player needs, getting them to refine their strengths and improve their weaknesses, so that the actual training means and methods were designed to help each individual player's improvement......I just don't see a multinational group getting quite that organized.
And you have to also understand that, in CNT, the guys who don't make it to the top, top, spots, like Hao Shuia, how CNT dropped him down even though he was good at beating other CNT players, he was not good at beating players from outside CNT. Why? He is a player that uses his opponent's power against them. But not a power player himself. Or Yan An, who, at some point it seems it was decided that he didn't have what it took to get to the next level.
CNT has the luxury of rejecting players no other country would be able to reject, and of choosing who they focus on when they put their efforts into developing a player more fully. With a multinational group trying to train together as a team, how do you think it would go over if the top coach just decided, "Tiago Apolonia, he isn't going to be able to get higher. Don't waste your time training him. Use him as a practice partner and get him to learn copy FZD to help train others."