To be precise, only when you had an absolute advantage could you hide yourself and find someone else to take the blame. That was how you could develop steadily. By the time the enemy came to their senses, they would realize it was already impossible to contain you as they had before.
It was like joining the WTO back then. The people next door had thought that letting China join the WTO would allow them to control China's economy, just as they controlled other countries. In the first few years after China joined, they had indeed achieved some results.
For example, American grain and oil companies had initially struck Chinese grain and oil companies, causing Chinese soybeans to lose their market because American soybeans were cheaper. Grain, oil, and similar products were cheaper too. Under their impact, pork prices had stayed low for several years. Then, after domestic grain and oil companies went bankrupt...
Heh... there was no need to mention what happened to the prices afterward, right? They more than tripled within a year.
Those were indeed effects caused by the other side. But while giving them a certain amount of profit, domestic trade had actually begun swallowing up different shares of the global market. By the time those shares spread into every field... it was already too late when the other side noticed.
Moreover, China was still the only country in the world that maintained a complete industrial system. That was confirmed by the World Trade Organization. The only one. Even the Americans could not do it.
Although some parts of its industrial system might be backward, such as chips, which really lagged behind, backward was backward—but China could make them!
In an emergency, China did not need to beg anyone!
But no other country could do that