> a state-sponsored effort to take technology and expertise from European companies and feed it into state-owned Chinese ones. These were the terms of the deal

> a state-sponsored effort to take technology and expertise from European companies and feed it into state-owned Chinese ones. These were the terms of the deal between Western and Chinese governing "elite". The West's gamble was that the Chinese would not (could not) maintain their ideological stance when exposed to Western societal norms. The Chinese gamble was that they would catch up and reach technological parity while maintaining their hold on the Chinese nation. No use complaining about it now.