I respectfully disagree with your fundamental precepts. Having worked along side and lived next door to many Chinese immigrants over the years, I have come to realize there is no way they will ever best the United States.
What they have now is due to theft of our intellectual property, and their basic skills, while deeply honed, are an inch wide and a mile deep. Within the inch, they are excellent, but outside of that, they are lost.
My Chinese neighbor was amazed that I knew how to operate a chain saw … something every American man prides himself on being able to do. Instead, my neighbor has no option but to call and wait for the man. Meanwhile, I have done the job and moved to the next one.
Such people can never lead; they can only follow.
Don’t fool yourself, they have many people capable of leading. Most are followers, but then again the same is true for this nation also.