They're in rapid technological development cycles that's reminiscent of the late 20th century USA. Often producing hilariously odd or bad gadgets, which people take as evidence that China sucks. As it's said when it's anything not-China, "you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet".

The US is cooked. China is the new world superpower

I was telling my husband I'd move to China in a heartbeat. That's how far we've fallen.

The US is mag dumping into their own foot.

When I was a child teachers had us watch black and white footage of people fighting each other for loafes of bread, some anti communist propaganda. It was actually scary to watch, I never forgot about it. Now I'm actually scared that could happen here.

What's odd is that id allow myself to catch on fire if it meant that the asshole billionaires burned with me. It would be so satisfying if all of their money became toilet paper. All those rich doomsday peppers would be executed by roaming gangs of ex military veterans. That's my fever dream

The US and its O&G and car industries absolutely let China become the main manufacturer of batteries and EVs.

Like Exxon, the US knew electrification was the future because of climate change, but tried to dismiss it. China seized the opportunity like a true capitalist, while the US government interefered with the free market to hinder electrification. This has been going on for over 20 years now.

The US is busy figuring out how to charge a monthly subscription for an AI that summarizes emails. China is making the batteries, solar panels, and drones everyone actually needs. At some point Silicon Valley will announce a breakthrough: a chatbot that explains why manufacturing moved overseas.

Invest in academia, get the best new tech.

This is not surprising - the west has some serious university investment to do if it wants to catch up!

Don't wanna sound like that guy, but this pretty much due to all the manufacturing capacity we shifted over to China. I mean they certainly got a jump start, yeah? It doesn't hurt that the whole place is a building machine.....wonder where they'd be if we never moved all that manufacturing there to begin with....