I will give you that. What’s been shocking to me is that, while the Trump right is antagonistic to China, they see China as the highly capable future superpower that it is. Ironically it’s the anti-Trump left that dismisses China as a backwater that won’t ever be able to do anything but “steal IP.”

I used to think that way. I joked with my engineer friends 15 years ago about Huawei copying American-designed routers down to the English silk screening on the circuit boards. Seeing Huawei pump out their own state of the art switching and router chips disabused me of that notion.