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China increasingly owns the electric car market globally, thanks to BYD. Lots of advancements in battery tech coming from CATL too. And China is a major player in robotics, because there's a big cluster in Hangzhou, companies like Unitree. They also have several companies making LLMs, like Deepseek, Qwen, Kimi, etc. Bytedance's new Seedance video model is impressive. China is also the biggest player in rare earth element refinement by far because the US abandoned the space so Diane Feinstein's husband could make money. And on top of all this China has a serious and reasonably unified government that isn't trying to replace its own people with shitty foreigners.
I don't want to praise it too hard, because China still has many major problems, like low fertility and lack of economic/technological advancement in its inland provinces, but it's a serious country.