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In the 80s knock off electronics came from Taiwan, now it's a high tech hub. If you're playing catch up, it's a waste of time to re-invent the wheel. This especially applies to military hardware, China started by license building and reverse engineering Soviet jets, then they jumped to building their own fighter jet with the J-10, which probably got some assistance from the Israeli Lavi, but it's not a copy of the Lavi. I read the biggest help they got from the Lavi project was the advanced computing that helped them calculate all the aerodynamics. The J-10C that downed advanced French Rafales is a far different plane than the original J-10A. Now China is the first country to fly 6th gen fighters, will will we be hearing that Murica is copying China when they fly their 6th gen fighter(so far it's just CG)?
Exact same process played out in both South Korea and Japan. There's a joke in Back to the Future that references this, where 50s Doc says "of course it broke, it's made in Japan!" and 80s Marty responds "What are you talking about? All the best stuff is made in Japan."
Perhaps there's a reason that this economic process was able to play out in the strategically important American puppet states but not to the same degree in any of the other capitalist countries in the region
It's almost as if manufacturing is a complex and multifaceted human process that takes more than a savant to figure out and execute properly.