>>106164729
>unlike japan they're not completely dependent on the US to do business and have a military so as a result the US can't sabotage them if they're getting too good to threaten US dominance like japan in the late 80s. they've tried, but they're apparently failing and any apparent setback seems to be temporary but with permanent effects on US leverage because when they get bullied out of a market they'll eventually learn to fill it in whether by innovating or by stealing US IPs.
Well, it also helps that the approach from the US is "hey knock that shit off" or we'll punish you! Then China's response is "why should we knock this shit off, hey why are you refusing to sell to us?" then the US says "no dude you don't understand, you really need to knock that shit off" then China says "lol lmao, ok nerd" and then starts building their own.
You can go on about how they've failed in some of these areas and there have been failures but in some they pull ahead. Manufacturing, industry, graphics & AI development all accelerated.
The issue the US had when they tried to bully other countries into this, is they were always reliant on immigrants, be it for university or just keeping their sectors afloat, engineering and whatever. A portion of those people would be Chinese, Russian etc.
It failed in Russia because they chose the oligarchs instead and they were behind and would require capital to invest and keep that running, whereas in China infrastructure would be built around it (even if at times they overbuilt).
The US doesn't really get this because it's so entrenched in neoliberalism that the nation is stuck in the 1970's. The American people deserve better imo, they're just like you and I at the end of the day.
