As China and US continue their trade war, well, perhaps it is broader than a trade war, because a lot of it involves information and technology, with a perhaps ultimate measure being power, particularly destructive. China has piggybacked on the US and Europe for a couple decades and has comparable technology. It frequently exhibits products almost exactly similar to cutting edge ones, like that fighter jet a while ago. There're a lot of Chinese in the US. Everone once in a while, one is discovered as a political or econonmic/tech spy. If US wants to outcompete China, it would be the cleanest plan for companies to just not employ Chinese people in those jobs, but they can't legally do that. It raises an interesting question, since that would be the cheapest and simplest solution, and would have the best outcome (Chinese in the US would strive to prove they are allied with US not with China), but could that ever be permitted in a society that has taken on goals of ‘equality of opportunity’?