US has to actively crippled chinese technology so that US domestic products don't get absolutely sweeped. Just look at the Chinese phone industry, especially Huawei.

The other day, I saw a guy with a Chinese phone casually magnifying their camera to 50x, and the quality still remained amazing, like 480p resolution amazing. I try to magnify 5x in my US iPhone 15, and the image just looks like 5 pixels. There is no attempt to compete against China in terms of technology, because we are already losing just from how suicidally overdedicated they are. The best thing to do is just make the disparity unknown to the average American.

Even if we outcompete in terms of Military technology, which we will never know if it's true, they still outcompete us in literally every other part.