If you read the article even closer, you'd see that it's part of an international collaboration that includes nearly all of the advanced industrial nations, inc

If you read the article even closer, you'd see that it's part of an international collaboration that includes nearly all of the advanced industrial nations, including the US. The entire point of ITER is to be a stepping-stone to commercial fusion power in the next few decades. As always it is certainly interesting news when Chinese mega-experiments are on parity with the US or Europe, but so far big fusion reactors are like Top-500 supercomputers in that respect - dual use technologies whose economic value is marginal at best.