All interesting. My son in law works for Lockheed Martin. He commented about China stealing our tech. He also made a point we are risk averse in creating new products and testing whereas China views taking a risk and finding it fails is a faster road to get where they want to be. If it fails, find the issue and fix it. Expensive seems to me but he claims they have about caught up with us. I prefer to think Wichtor is right and I do concerning men/women ration and other things but tech, I don’t know if he knows.
One thing is that China’s quality control absolutely sucks. Not just the junk they export, but internally. I remember reading a few years ago about some large bridge that was opened with great fanfare. As soon as the first batch of vehicles started crossing, it collapse.
The contractor had mixed a bunch of ground up styrofoam in with the cement to save money.
China is also massively corrupt with each layer of beaurocracy/government people ripping off and cheating their downlines, from top to the lowest provincial guy. It’s a society based on cheating and ripoffs.
She graduated with hydro-electric engineering degree in Kunming, Yunnan Province; left her high-paying job in the city, and returned to her rural valley to repair equipment.