Chinese business people, sort of a class of "rehabilitated kulaks" are being allowed to interact with Western businesses, in order to channel money in the PRC. Most of them were nobodies (a few princelings notwithstanding) prior to the onset of Deng Xiao Ping thought, which is the PRC's version of the NEP. Meanwhile, the ruling structures of the CCP and the PLA, continue to regard the US as enemy number one and the West as inferior to the Middle Kingdom, given its reputed "Mandate of Heaven." Once the cash infusions and direct foreign investment have allowed the PRC to fully develop her autobahns, blue water navy, and full strategic military capability, then the usefulness of these "sinic kulaks" will have been spent. At that time, the mask can be shed, and master plans revealed.
That's called riding the tiger into battle...i.e. Communist bigwigs betting that China can tame the capitalists rather than become an entire nation of capitalists.
...And in Chinese lore, whoever rides the tiger gets eaten (sometimes before or without defeating their foe, other times after).