Environmental regulations that did away with the steel mills and shipyards--and a host of wacko groups to tie everything up in court ad infinitum..
@Smokin Joe YUP!
On the bright side,individual creativity has been punished for over a thousand years in China, so they are the least creative people on earth.
I seem to recall they bought an aircraft carrier from the Russians 10+ years ago,and it is still in their harbor after the Russians delivered it to them.
Pretty much every weapon they have was bought from the Russians.
Not to fear,though. The DNC has made sure that Chinese "students" can get visas to come to America and enter our colleges in order to bring themselves up to date after learning how to think.
One way they do this is by buying up all the text books they can find,as well as all the research papers they can get their hands on,and mail them back to China VIA USPS.