This is the exact same stuff they told Chinese. Just make those shoes, don't worry about aerospace, your products may be nice but they 'just don't fit the western standards'. And in the 1980's, they were believed!
because Deng ordered that it was an "inefficient throwback to Maoism".
Instead China was to license build 'advanced' McDonnell Douglas planes.
despite thousands of planes being ordered. McDonnell Douglas then went out of business in the 90's, meaning those planes became abandoned tech with no support. China then had no domestic civilian aerospace industry at all. Chinese are still paying for this fateful decision.
Then you have the automotive case, too much to write about. That is how close China came to becoming Ukraine.