I'm just not sure we have any room to be critical of them.
Exactly.
And if the GOP weren’t filled with a bunch of morons on trade policy, the PRC wouldn’t have the cash to pursue programs like this, let alone have the ready access to US technology that’s been outsourced to their country’s manufacturing sector to put into these ships and aircraft.
We enriched them so they could afford this, and then we gave them the technology.
Who’s stupid here? It sure doesn’t look like the Chinese are the stupid people here.