If you go through my comment history, you'll see that I am critical of the CCP for many of the reasons you've listed. However, my argument is that the West, in

If you go through my comment history, you'll see that I am critical of the CCP for many of the reasons you've listed. However, my argument is that the West, in general, underestimated China because of beliefs of cultural, economic, political, intellectual, ethnic, moral, etc superiority. Those beliefs were ultimately weaknesses.