A2A. China is not a superpower. It has never proposed that it would become one. To be a superpower you need to be both economic and military dominance that it projects its power over areas and countries far beyond its own borders. To date modern China has maintained its military strictly for the defence of its territory.

OK let’s talk about copying & imitating in business. Does this happen world wide? Yes it happens everyday in every country. In business we have a euphemism called - "being competitive”. It consists of the practise of imitating what your competition is doing successfully. You see this literally everyday and it has been going on since business strategy was created. In your country is there only ONE hamburger or chicken or coffee or drugstore chain or cable TV network or one smart phone that has different features than all the other ones? NO because 95% of the time business all over the world function by imitating success and 5% of the time they are disruptors and innovate something different.

When Japan auto industry nearly killed the US auto industry in the later part of 20th century; did they reinvent cars? NO. They improved the quality of what US manufacturers had designed to give the consumer what they wanted and what they wanted was Japanese cars not American ones which forced US car manufacturers copy Japanese manufacturers. IRONIC isn’t it?

A number of people believe Apple is not a company that invents. Rather it takes what others have already invented and applies those things in a different way. Yet Apple is rated by many as innovative.

To a degree what China has done to date is similar to what Japan did in the 1970’s and for the next 30 odd years. China is the world’s factory in large measure because it can produce things in great volume and at lower overall cost compared to others giving western businesses & multi-national companies higher profit margins.