This is quite big for China's competitiveness.
The collaboration was clearly being abused by the hostile neighboring nations that continue to threaten their sovereignty to the same effect as your argument though. It's unacceptable to wager an economic future in a climate that permits and turns a blind eye to the continued threatened safety of an independent nation that stems from an ignorant view on geographic entitlement. That is to say, other interested parties are learning an entirely different lesson from this exercise.