I agree that it's not urgent now, but the situation could shift very quickly as we see they are getting desperate in trying to contain and/or weaken China. They should at least spend more to bring up more facilities to maintain and produce more ships and submarines.
For the investing in technology point, dependency on Chinese supply chains is not reliable deterrence for the long-term, the West is keen on trying to wean of economic links with China, which sure they are failing at the moment, but we can't put our bets that they won't succeed in the future.
What China should do instead is to get the Western elites in their pockets, by tying their prosperity and wealth to China. This gives China more control and influence over the politics in US, allowing them to lobby pro-China/self-sabotaging laws and weakening anti-China/self-improvement laws.
On the surface, investing in technology right now is to create self-sufficiency so that in the event of a war between China and the West, China wouldn't be catastrophically affected by it. As these technology become more competitive, they can be used as a bargaining chip and a honey trap for the elites following the strategy I written above.
Throwing this out there, the reason western countries are failing at severing the economic links is because they are 15 steps behind and tripping over themselves. Their only strategy is to try to move to the next lowest cost producer, Vietnam, other SEA, India, Africa, etc.
Their problem is that these countries are infrastructure and industry poor. So they inevitably turn to China for lower cost industrial equipment and infrastructure.
Then Biden tries to make a B3W and fails because Wall Street doesn’t finance for free and the government knows they will not find political support for them to do it themselves, only China is willing to do this because of the communist government.
China is already responsible for lining the pockets of Western companies, Apple, all German car companies, GM, Tesla, Wal-Mart, Amazon (indirectly). Yet the US government has already passed self sabotaging laws (25% tariff on electronics, responsible for some of the inflation which is why they are suspended now).
Honestly the US government is a joke. As long as people like Marsha “define woman” Blackburn, Marjorie Qanon Greene, Tom Cottonmouth, and now that orgy guy keep getting elected, all China has to do is not be totally retarded (pardon the language) and already you’re 10 steps ahead.
