Oh. . .and engines, I forgot to mention engines (they aren’t even close on that essential part either).
I hope you’re right, mate, in every aspect of your analysis.
My main point is that the Chinese are very clever, wily and industrious fellows, they are securing excellent educations at the world’s top universities and turning out top students in every conceivable field of study, they are securing vital resources in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the South Pacific, and they are speedily beetling away building massive infrastructure in China the likes of which this world has never seen...
Even if 99% if the things they do fails, the 1% that remains is going to be massively significant, by virtue of the fact that there are so dam’n many of them.
IMO it would be miraculous if one or two of the squillions of ChiComs going thru university today studying advanced Engineering were unable to comprehend how to build hi-tech jet engines as good or perhaps even better than those made in the United States. They might be communists but they are dam’nably clever: just look at the graduating class of any top university, and see who takes away most of the top marks. Chances are excellent that person will be Chinese.
And all of the above that has been said for China can also be said for India, with the added advantage that they speak English as a native language.
As the antient saying goes “Beware the Wiley Chinee...”