Chinese-Dragon
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Remember old golden egg story ...
man killed hen for golden egg at once...but lost it for long term
china gained in short term by killing hen / copying -stealing tech but lost for long term
This is what you said, but it is in fact the opposite.
Unlike India, China has been working for the long-term. Not just in military affairs, but economic affairs as well.
Deng Xiaoping cut millions of troops from the PLA, during the Cold War when both the USA and the USSR were openly enemies with us. Now that was a huge gamble.
But you're seeing the fruits of that gamble paying off now. Not only has our economy gone far ahead of India's, our indigenous defence industries have as well. We have inducted the world's very first ASBM platform (the DF-21D), and we have built two 5th generation fighters. Whereas India is still struggling to build a light combat aircraft.
As you can see, we bet on the long-term. Instead of spending our money on short-term imports and subsidies, we spent it on long-term indigenous manufacturing and investment.