Since you were claiming the only remaining US advantage was in us owning the standards or designs, how is this preventing China from building to these US design standards royalty free?
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3571216
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000023
Point that claim out, exactly. You will find that I claimed, in very simple language, that the standards are being set and innovated in the West because the Chinese culture does not encourage innovation. It does not seem that you appreciate the difference between "owning" IP and "owning" the process of IP creation.
Patents don't protect anything. They give a legal standing to sue on. The Chinese (with or without the CCP) do not respect rule of law, so "IP ownership" the way you talk about it is meaningless. It would not matter if the Chinese copied our Constitution and proclaimed a free China tomorrow....they do not respect the rule of law and thus IP ownership is meaningless to them.
The Power/Sparc cores don't give them anything they couldn't have already stolen from ARM. IBM and Sun's decisions are capitulation to having lost in the marketplace. And yet, even when they've paid for x86 or ARM cores, name a single product/environment that the Chinese have innovated and dumped on the market such as the iPod+iTunes, rather than just knocking off generic MP3 player hardware?
Where is a single Chinese processor architecture concept? The Western failures of Power and the ancient Sparc dwarf anything the chinese have currently developed....or even have the capability of launching. Where is a chinese RAM interface? Where is a chinese digital video modulation standard?
Yet you think they've "blown past" America in technology. Sorry. Not true. Not with technology (military or civilian), culture, society, or even government.
Yes, even the US government is less corrupt and more efficient than the CCP.