Theft doesn't scale. Like a parasite that kills its own host, after you drive your victim out of business, who will you steal from then?

Using fear and brutal dominance causes people to take less risks and focus on appearing to succeed instead of committing to the unpopular, long-term effort and delayed results that innovation requires. China's appearance of recent success is exactly that - an appearance. A thin facade created by a PR campaign. We all know from being ripped off on Amazon the real quality of Chinese products. It's exactly what one would expect from a country of prisoners.

If China is such a great power, why not compete on a even field? Get rid of the mail subsidies and use a fair currency exchange rate. You won't, because you know your backwater has no hope of competing with civilized nations. Arrogance and corruption are not a replacement for responsible and effective.

Oh, well, your faith is strong with this one.

But praying for the downfall of your enemy due to their own weaknesses isn't very good strategy leads towards victory, as we all understand it.

Praying? More like waiting.

Go examine how common private debt is in China. How common corruption is, which leads to bad products and failing infrastructure.

"civilized nations"?

Pride goeth before the fall..

Yeah, this kind of blind racism and ignorance of what's actually happening in China is always a bit shocking. A lot of people are going to look back on the US from 2001 to 2030 and ask themselves how people be so totally blind and stupid. It's going to be one of those monumental historical blunders that will never really be lived down.

They're innovative enough to implement off of stolen documents and whatever they already know which is a pretty hard skill.

I can't tell you how many projects I've been on where everything is spelled out to spec and nothing gets implemented right.