Long story short --- China has a hybrid system that is designed to defeat western capitalism.
Internally, China retains a lot of communist elements. Information and technology is openly shared among Chinese companies. This avoids a lot of wasted time, effort and energy spent on things like IP lawsuits.
Externally, China is strictly capitalistic. Nothing is shared without compensation.
A simple and brutally efficient plan of attack designed by engineers --- not lawyers and con artists.
Personal opinion: About the only thing that could possibly stop China from economically strangling the west at this point is internal corruption.
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