The Chinese will never surpass the US. They have neither the technology nor the ability to think outside the box like we can.
The Panda is not tame. It is merely the Smiley face that the Dragon wears to hide its barbarism.
Agree 100%, and anyone who thinks otherwise is an IDIOT and a Knee Jerk Reactionary. The Chinese are not as closely as innovative as the Russians were, not by a long shot, and the Soviet Union is no more.
Actually, it appears with our continuing hemhorraging of industrial...and military...secrets to Red China, it is likely that it is our own people that refuse to think outside the box and recognize a serious threat.
Remember the Cox Commission and the loss of the W-88 design, the Neutron Bomb, and God only knows what else [perhaps even Excalibur]? The loss of the SuperMagnet industry (Magnequench)? The Loss of our Aegis Phased Array radar technology? The loss of a wide range of ship-queiting motor and electronics technology? The loss just recently of our operational technology or missile interception on the Aegis ships? The loss of our B-2 thermal stealth technology? The loss of the passive radar technique for stealth-plane-detection? The loss of the science behind detecting our submarines by satellites using Synthetic Aperature Radars. The loss of the Terfenol-D technology (superior sonars, and a wide variety of immensely valuable other uses). The loss of our GPS technology? And oh, the loss of our manufacturing, not just the technology of our "Night Vision" equipment [ITT fined $100 million]?
And the attempted "poaching" of the Metal-Storm inventor...and his family for a paltry $100 million.
These are just some things which have surfaced to the MSM. What do you want to bet that they are simply the Tip of the Iceberg?
They routinely "Flood the Zone" of our vital-advantage technologies with thousands upon thousands of their "technology students" ...and they waltz off with it Scot-Free.