Beyond what the government has gifted, tech companies have gifted their technology to China on a silver platter, too. They chose to do business there, knowing

Beyond what the government has gifted, tech companies have gifted their technology to China on a silver platter, too. They chose to do business there, knowing their tech would be stolen, and they even stayed when the Chinese government made the tech stealing official, by forcing US companies to accept "joint ventures" where basically they'd only be allowed to sell their tech locally through a local provider. That was the final nail in the coffin of American technology. I still think ultimately China will fail because it will shoot itself in the foot with all of that authoritarianism and censorship, which will get worse and will kill creativity and chase away the brilliant creators. But in the meantime, they have all they could possibly want, and it's mostly given to them.