If we continue to advance our technology how do they remain equal when the theft by them is curtailed?
All these stories about the “Wonderful and brilliant” Chinese are propaganda pieces written by sympathizers. I’m not suggesting they will never catch us technologically but they haven’t done so yet and it will be a while before they do, if they do because we are not a stationary target.
You’re assuming we’re still advancing. Our Congress has been killing off and blocking needed upgrades for most of the past two decades. We didn’t build enough F-22s, the LCS is an abject failure, all of our frigates are gone and we have had to buy in a foreign design for an emergency build program, our destroyers are forty year old designs with upgrades strapped onto them and are inferior to counterparts operated by our allies (let alone our enemies), we torpedoed our battlefield laser programs, we went with the cheap-n-cheerful Virginia class submarines instead of the Seawolf “monster in the darkness” attack subs, etc., etc.