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>>12420878
China is literally following the same steps as Japan back then. The latter began their economic boom building cheap shit after WW2, which were of poor quality but as time went by they became much more sophisticated and managed to build much better stuff but the notion of "Made in Japan" was still known as "cheap shit".
Then came the 80's when Japan was literally about to overtake the US economically, where even Trump was saying the same things he's saying about China today but about Japan: https://youtu.be/A8wJc7vHcTs?t=130
The anti-japanese sentiment became greater as the american companies were being BTFO by japanese manufacturing: https://youtu.be/T56O7HGroY8
And even more americans claimed that the japanese success was all due to Japan copying american stuff: https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/21/69996/index.htm
Japan in the end was forced to sign the Plaza Accord where the USD would become depreciated in relation to the Yen (literal economic suicide for export based economy). This directly caused the "Lost Decade" of Japan.
But we can't use this tactic this time against china since they're not a vassal state unlike Japan was and still is