Question is, how do you disabuse them of this notion?
Hit them in the face with reality.
Repeat the process until they get it.
It is going to take a while.
The reasons being, ignorance, as China is not a country that many in the West knows much about, and even those China hands kind of missing the picture.
Stubbornness is a major factor too.
Then for some people it is stupidity. That Senator Tom Cotton, after repeatedly asking where that TikTok CEO was from, no one can think of Tom Cotton other than he is stupid.
Once, a while ago, I posted a video with a Chinese drone swarm in some forum that only had white people. Those Canadians never saw anything like it, and thought it could not be real.
What chance do they got? If they want to confront the challenge of the rise of China, then they have no creditable strategy at all. They really think they can take on China with ignorance, stubbornness, and stupidity?
China will continue rising, some people will complain bitter about it, then the rest of the Global South will try to maximize their own gains from this.
In short, the West's misconceptions about China, makes it easier for China to rise. Basically, they do not know what they are dealing with, and are totally unprepared.
The Chinese EV take could be coming to America is a good story. It is not coming to America, because the protectionism will kick in.
That is how America intends to compete with the Chinese on EVs, they won't.
