Because every business is there to make money. China would be big North Korea if it didn't focus on making money and economics.
Apparently a lot more than you and your old-school outdated post Chinese civil war style.
The education system geared China up for growth in the era that it was made for and it did that wonderfully hence China's growth and success. You cannot create an education system for something that has yet to happen because the demand is not there yet, so the students will not enlist to learn something that will drop them in some dead-end government stipend job.
The US had a rivalry with the Soviets regardless of their economics, which was far far weaker than China's. Even in retrospect, you cannot correctly describe America's trends but you expect other people to accurately predict the future.
No, it's the fault of some wannabe expert who has accomplished nothing to speak of criticizing a government that runs the fastest developing country in the world.
What does it mean to be prepared? Is it prepared to be at a stage where you can quickly develop the tools when needed? Or do you need to have prototypes? Or do you need to have everything in competitive order ready for the market immediately? There are so many different levels of preparedness in so many different fields. That America has so few targets to attempt the technological chokehold on with China is China being prepared. A lessor nation could have multiple critical technologies in all fields strangled and be unable to handle R&D on all of them at once. Your complaint is simply raising the standards sky high for others without looking at yourself.
One of the biggest mistakes that the Soviets made in their ideology was to do things for the sake of doing them; China does things as the need arises. And because of that, China always found itself in the hotspot of growth while the Soviets bankrupted themselves on needless projects that they did not have the resources to see through to the end. A domestic advanced lithograph was exactly such a project before the tech war. It would have been tremendously expensive and inefficient to build, especially because companies didn't want to make one as there was no need, so using government funds to push them was like trying to push an elephant lying down. Those resources can be used to push many other things that move better, and the CCP did just that. Now, the need is there and the these companies all see that their futures depend on it; that elephant is up and running and with an additional push, it's charging forward like it's got an engine in it.
That's an economically ignorant thing to say. Because there is a problem now with China needing to replace some foreign parts, which it can do, you are overcorrecting into a territory that would have made China a much smaller and failed economy instead. If everyone else is in an internationalized economy and you are not, you are like North Korea and you will end up spending higher and higher percentages of your wealth to achieve lesser and lesser technological breakthroughs in that situation.
No, it reflects China's dynamism and adaptability to a changing challenge and global environment.
