China is not losing this decade, the scientific gap will add to the growing chasm of future outcomes between the two superpowers.
The false narative is that it's straight from Greek and Roman era to the Renaissance era as if mathematicians and scientists were just fall asleep in the entire world where in actual fact in the Arab and Muslim world many thousands of books from Greece/Rome/India/China were painstakenly translated (no Google translate, no printing press) and many more new books were written.
[1] Toledan Tables: