Another cope article by the Chinese lib Minxin Pei, just read for laughs. He obviously has zero knowledge in both semiconductors and football since he got the typical Chinese lib degrees - English & Political Science - so it is mostly just word salad for the consumption of Western audience. I guess that's the typical career pathway for low quality degree graduates of Chinese descent in the West - yellow face propaganda mouthpieces so that their masters don't get called 'racist'. Surprisingly, the few comments under the article are pretty based.
Once China regains the rightful place they will change their tune. We have historic precedence for this. Behold Voltaire, one of the key thinkers whose work led to the creation of Western Democracy.
As a representative Sinophile in France during the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire (1694– 1778) was very interested in China, to the extent that he claimed, “Although I have never been to China, I have met over 20 people who have travelled to China and think I have read all the literature mentioning the country” (Voltaire, Philosophical Dialogues 264). In various works of his, Voltaire introduced China as an ideal country. In Letters on the English, he described China as “the wisest and best governed country in the world” (50), and in Philosophical Dictionary, he described it as “the most extended and best governed kingdom of the world” (108). In “The Travels of Scarmentado,” one of his satires, Voltaire presented China as “a free and enjoyable country” (140). In Essay on the Manner and Spirit of Nations, he argued that it is impossible to imagine a better government than that of China at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and pointed out that all power lay in the hands of a bureaucracy “whose members were admitted only after several severe examination” (221). Voltaire was aware that positive aspects of Chinese politics, ethics, and religion were closely related to the teachings of Confucius. For the French writer, Confucius is a “sage” who “deemed too highly of his character as a legislator for mankind, to stoop to deceive them” (Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary 343). After this estimation of the Chinese sage, Voltaire adds, “What finer rule of conduct has ever been given since his time, throughout the earth?” (Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary 343) Confucius was at the core of Voltaire’s Sinophilia.