Made possible by the profits from one-sided trade deals with the US and other Western nations, and by purchased and stolen US military technology.
All this trade with China was supposed to turn those communists into freedom loving capitalists. That's what we would told by those who pushed trade with China for years. What happened?
This is what happens when commercial interests are put before national security and common sense.
Shhhh. Don't tell Patriot Limbaugh, it might upset him......