From my observation, China's most prominent successes (EVs, Drones, etc) have been through emerging technologies where established players have neglected. I believe the "Blue Ocean Strategy" was considered as one of the most influential books by the CCP, and they've executed that strategy well.

But in terms of "red oceans", I don't really see China having any special advantages over the already heavy competition beyond manafacturing, after all they never did make a globally competitive ICE car, it was through leapfrogging with EVs that they succeeded. If we talk about OS here, domestically they can do whatever, but I don't see why it wouldn't just be another competitor in a long list of competitors.

I think the red oceans are just longer term pieces of the puzzle. The blue ocean opportunities were quick wins.

By the way, Chinese companies own multiple Western ICE car manufacturers. Those manufacturers (Volvo, Lotus, Polestar) are transitioning to EVs or only make EVs anyway.

Here’s an example on the software side: what happens if the Chinese smartphone players drop Android? Let’s say Xiaomi and Huawei now only come with a Chinese OS which can run Android apps as a stopgap, replacing Google Play with their own App Store. Those two brands represent 20% of European cell phone marketshare.

Now imagine this Chinese OS gives Samsung a better arrangement than Google. Overnight, Google is basically out of the picture.

That’s right, they only have to convince one phone manufacturer who already depends on a third party company for their OS to switch, and the instant they do so they win over more than half of the European smartphone market.

https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/europe

But accurately estimating your rival undermines the load-bearing assumption of total superiority. Nobody can rival the greatest nation on earth.

Many groundbreaking research papers are written by researchers at Chinese institutes

Don't overestimate them either, there's a single developed dictatorship on earth and it's the city state of Singapore.

There's some good reasons behind that and I have a feeling they are discovering some of those paradox at the moment.

Just one? What about Turkey? Saudi Arabia? UAE? Qatar? Russia? You could probably include Vietnam and Jordan.

Singapore is the only well government country on your list. Nobody wants to live in one of these countries. Singapore has its audience.

But now you’re moving goal posts. We were talking “developed” now we are talking “places where people want to live.”

But that in itself a dubious claim…for example, Dubai’s population is over 80% expatriates.

If we are going for “places where people want to live” the elephant in the room is the view of gun violence in the United States by foreigners. It comes up as a top fear about visiting or living in the US.

Just today I watched a story about an elementary school child choosing a class pet based on whether it could be kept safe during an active shooter event, because they didn’t want the pet to die.

Dubai is a good counter example, yes. In Turkey for example are just leaving people, Russia lost 1 million people last year.

Also developed seems for you a very low bar then? Russia is a very poor country,not very developed.

Russia has one of the highest income inequality rates of developed countries and major regional disparities but it is still by definition a developed country. Its real GDP per capita of $27,500 is considered wealthy on a global scale. That number is comparable to Spain.

Russia has an HDI of >.800 which is classified as “very high.” This number is higher than China, India, and Brazil.

People in Russia generally aren’t lacking access to improved sanitation.

Russia has compulsory education and a full literacy rate.

Don’t forget that this is a country that has been industrialized for a long time. This is a country among a very short list that can do things like get rockets into space and build jet aircraft engines. Even manufacturing powerhouse China has to import engines and avionics for its C919 aircraft. The Tu-214 uses Russian avionics and engines.

Russia or Turkey wouldn’t be my choice of place to live but they are developed.

thank you and ok, I see you argument. I am astonished that such poor countries are counted as developed. I am asking myself how bad are non developed countries.

None of those are developed and still have a large part of the country undeveloped.

The UAE is probably the closest one from your list but you'd have to basically ignore the large Indian diaspora which isn't treated very well to make it fit.