China doesn't need to nor should it suck America's ass but it does owe a debt of gratitude in the least. China is not China without America handing over its industrial base to China despite the motivation for doing that. Yes, it was for labor arbitrage purposes which gave the shaft to America's industrial workers and middle class, but Wall Street knew China would reverse engineer and still went ahead anyway. Had Wall Street not done that, China would not be the China we see today. It would still be largely feudal and agrarian and who knows, maybe that would have been better for the world and better for China and actually probably so.
China doesn't need to nor should it suck America's ass but it does owe a debt of gratitude in the least. China is not China without America handing over its industrial base to China despite the motivation for doing that. Yes, it was for labor arbitrage purposes which gave the shaft to America's industrial workers and middle class, but Wall Street knew China would reverse engineer and still went ahead anyway. Had Wall Street not done that, China would not be the China we see today. It would still be largely feudal and agrarian and who knows, maybe that would have been better for the world and better for China and actually probably so.