Can you give an example of something the US has sanctioned from China that they suddenly became extremely competent at all on their own?

China has caught up so quick because we literally give them the blueprints on some or the west’s most advanced designs, setup the factories, show them how to make it, and then go all shocked Pikachu when they just… Do that in another location too but with a different logo on it.

I don’t think there are really that many Chinese companies that rose up domestically organically. They stole their way to success and often continue to follow behind the western company they copied because they don’t have the people that made the product, just their designs to parody.

I don’t buy this "we’re digging our own grave by not allowing our most sensitive technology to be manufactured in China for them to steal it via an easy button. If they want to steal it, make them at least try.