You're right, it does make sense, given that the USA also experienced similar credit downgrades over the past decade when it went through its own credit crisis:

You're right, it does make sense, given that the USA also experienced similar credit downgrades over the past decade when it went through its own credit crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_credit-rating_downgrades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_governme... While we're being snarky, let's not forget that China also regularly steals, copies, hacks, and sources much of their "production" innovation from the USA while simultaneously impeding the United States' ability to enter Chinese markets in just about every category of good or service. So we'll just call this one even and leave it at that.