China vs Europe Who Made It Big

So in class we had a nice long debate about whether China or Europe experienced a more significant Renaissance. Okay well let's start with the fact that the Chinese may have created the first form of paper, but when the Europeans discovered their manufacturing methods of the paper they were able to spread the idea world wide. I felt like the Europeans made a significant "expansion" is the terminology I will use to defend myself. However, I do have to side with the fact that China had a more significant Renaissance due to the fact that they created a whole new China with the innovations they manufactured. The creations of paper, cotton and other innovations allowed for China to prosper as a country and they probably had good reasoning not to share it with the whole world. It could have been for the reason that they wanted to be the more prosperous and valuable country that had things other countries didn't have. So when the Europeans discovered China's secrets they chose to make it somewhat more advanced in order to disperse the idea to the world. The Europeans made themselves look like they were the most advanced and took all credit for manipulating the Chinese's original innovations. This is why I felt that the Europeans succeeded in having an expansion rather than a Renaissance because it wasn't based on their own original creations, but the manipulated versions of the original. Which in some sense wasn't very fair to China and this is why I felt that China deserved their accreditation for being the ones to manufacture the original.