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Watch this video and see what i was talking about
Pakistan cruise missile technology,Urdu video - YouTube
You forgot Japan and South Korea.
20 yrs ago that would have been true. USA is 400 yrs old country while China got its independence in 1949, China has progressed rapidly and as of today, China is surely behind but not far behind USA and the gap is reducing day-by-day. Many Chinese universities are among top universities in the world and ranking are intrinsically rigged in favour of English speaking nations so Chinese universities are underestimated. Plus Chinese research is published more and more in Chinese journals and thus really not easily accessible to the rest of the world and thus making it very difficult to accurately estimate its progress in R&D. China is obsessed with secrecy and this also adds to the difficulty. Chinese students regularly top in US universities and there a lot of Chinese origin professors in the faculties of US universities and most of them have visiting faculty positions in Chinese universities (7 just in my school). As far as, industry is concerned, China has much larger manufacturing sector than USA and EU and they are getting really sophisticated. China's economic model is very different than USA. USA believes in exploitation and violence as the state tools for economic growth thus USA has to periodically come up with new excuses to bomb nations in resource rich geographies. While China believes in industrial development, business and trade, investment and competitive pricing.