Nice way to move the bar. The Chinese are crushing it in state-of-the-art EVs, batteries, solar, heavy manufacturing, produce pretty much every electronics component out there, have advanced chip lithography which has never been closer to what ASML offers, cheap steel, managerial skill to make massive infrastructure developments, and so on.

And every single one of these points was, in the past 10 years, one of the "wake me up when" things that Americans with a superiority complex were going on about.

You're about to get the rug pulled from under you and you didn't even see it.