Re: U.S. sanctions inadvertently sharpen China's edge

Whatever.
I believe American reporters and commentators know America and Americans
well. They are invariably American experts. In constrast, most are a lot
more ignorant about China and Chinese. I would have little problem with
what they report on facts such as how many universities have what
courses to train engineers on what specialty. In contrast, I would not
take their comments and/or speculation seriously. Have no reason to.
The quality of any press is, inevitably, limited by their readers and
viewers. A TV broadcaster, serving color blind viewers has no reason to
show TV program in colors other than black and white. TV program on
color is still possible. But no real colors need to be shown.
Anyway, how well a democracy enables maximum freedom for the people
rests on two pillars. Confucianism address these two pillars front and
center. One just needs to read and understand the Great Learning (Not
the Google translated version).
"Great Learning" means learning to achieve best governance, not
"university" as translated by Google. One pillar is to upgrade the
quality of people such that they advance themselves with time. And can
be all that they could be.  The other pillar is how the the officials
could and should self-cultivate themselves constantly.
Given that democracy and freedom depends on the quality of the people as
well as the officials, I dare say, China has the best democratic and
freedom credential.