A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too

At what point are we going to accept the fact that China with over a billion people may also develop something more advanced than the west?

We are still pretending that we have the most advanced of everything and can't accept that it may be China worried about the west stealing from them.

What about raising fear that anyone else could, too? I guess I am not surprised about the sinophobia being shoehorned into this story by the nyt.