How did China rise to dominate in so many areas?

 How did China rise to dominate in so many areas especially in providing essential commodities, like rare earth, lithium batteries and the raw materials needed to make them? Not only that, it also holds the refining edge in most of the essential raw material processing expertise, which it started to build up even before the West realized it too late. This supports the oft repeated narrative that Chinese leaders always think a decade or two ahead. They secure all the resources before embarking on their intended initiative like EVs. Likewise, retaliation against USA and European sanctions will be finely calibrated to inflect maximum damage and not taken on the spur of the moment and failing badly.

While the USA and the West were leveraging on their war mongering initiative and how to carry out regime changes, China focuses its mindset on conquering the economic benefits of looking after its future. What is happening now with the trade and chips war is exactly what China feared most over the decades. China knows the USA and the West will sabotage its rise, by erecting hurdles, sanctioning and preventing its foray into areas that the USA and the West dominates.

The next big sanction coming against China, after chips and TikTok, will be the supply of jet engines for China's own planes, the C919. The C919 is selling well in China, with domestic airlines providing a reported more than 800 planes on order. China totally did not place a single order for Boeing lately and the USA is retaliating with the engine sales ban on the horizon. But China is not waiting for it to happen and is already making efforts to manufacture its own jet engines. In fact, China already made their own domestic jet engines for the C919 and is waiting for its airworthiness certification. You can bet the USA and the West will erect hurdles to delay the certification. Meanwhile the C919 passenger jet is already serving the Chinese domestic market since mid 2023.

I also realize that Russia is also well versed in jet engine manufacturing, and should China want to have a more diverse supply of such engines, the Russians will benefit greatly, while the company manufacturing such engines in USA will suffer the long-term consequences. The jet engine sales ban will backfire for sure. 

Anonymous