umm no, in actual reality... when the western world finally had something to do with china.... china was well behind technologically, and still are today.
hence why britain's navy absolutely crapped all over the chinese navy..... Britain got a lot of chinese population hooked on opium, so that china would have to trade with them, when the chinese got sick of it, they did try to launch an attack, but were severely outmatched and they got hammered...
is what i am refering too.... the fact still remains, by the time the west had ANYTHING TO DO WITH CHINA... china, was centuries behind in technology, and since then, china has just had to steal technology to try to keep up