> Chinese businesses expand internally

But they can only do that for so long. Companies like Alibaba rely on a captive domestic consumer market and corrupt political ties to China's regime. Again this is why the U.S. doesn't have to compete on price. Alibaba offers cloud services now similar to Amazon AWS and Google. If you were a startup in the U.S. would you use Alibaba if it was cheaper? Are you going to send all your proprietary source code and intellectual property to a server in China? And if everything does get stolen what would you do? File suit in a Chinese court? I'm sure the Chinese authorities would get right on that assuming your lawyer doesn't turn up missing.