It's a story about unsavory government behavior going unchecked not about private industry achievement.
That is like me saying something like this: they may be 1.4 billion strong, but most me are considered unhappy and sexually frustrated by policy design.
>China has many millions more men than women, a hangover of the country's one-child policy, which was overturned in 2015, though its effects will last decades more. The gender imbalance is making it hard for many men to find a partner – and the gap is likely to widen.
>By 2020, it’s estimated there will be 30 million more men than women looking for a partner. In his book, The Demographic Future, American political economist Nicholas Eberstadt cites projections that by 2030, more than a quarter of Chinese men in their 30s will not have married.
(http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170213-why-millions-of-ch...)
I used to work CFIUS issues for the DoD and can tell you that the government preventing tech from being exported when both parties (developer and acquirer) want to share basically never happens.