Re: @Fleming: Control The Fire, Reduce Technology Flow
"This is clearly insane and must be stopped. We must not deliver any more petrol for this prospective fire, free trade ideologies be damned.
Delivery of Material, Education, Technology Services to China must be strictly controlled and strictly limited, or we will see a hot war between us and China. Let's get our priorities right."
It's way too late for that now. China bootstrapped years ago. They play the long game. That's why they appeared to switch to a form of capitalism for a while, and in some ways, still are. But the "heavy hand of control from the top" and central planning is still and always has been, there. "Capitalist" business leaders who "go native" and step over the line very quickly get stomped on. As for education, they have world class universities. Some of the very best will still go abroad to the likes of MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford etc. Peking University is just outside the top 10 universities in the world. Most of their best students study in China. It's mainly those who didn't get into the top Chinese universities who then travel to Europe, UK, USA etc.
They may be behind in some fields, but are ahead or on par in other fields. Anything they are behind in, they can throw money and resources at like no other country can. Trying to stop them is like Canute ordering the tide to stop coming in, ie a demonstration that it's not possible. Sanctions, at best, can only slow them down a bit.