The West is dominated by vested interests who will do everything possible to scotch fusion generated power.
You make a good point, but billions have been spent researching fusion power. One of the problems is that advocates often work against their own interests by shouting down any attempt at conversation that does not fit their narrow parameters. Any one who questions a deeply held belief not backed up by facts and reason is met with derision and ridicule.
No, the West is dominate by delusional lunatics who don’t understand that a lot of other bright similarly delusional lunatics have not yet managed to figure out how to make fusion work despite tens of Billions of dollars “invested” in research to make it all happen.
We don’t yet know if it even could work on scales smaller than nuclear bombs because no one has yet made it work.