"A lot of these tactics are mistaken, but they show China cares about startups in a way the US does not."[0]
"China is doing to the US what the US did to Britain in the 19th century: growing their economy while we waste money on our empire."[1]
[0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/772343525199474688 [1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/772344187995947008
Look at Uber. They're hemorrhaging money all so that they can artificially lower wages and run their competitors out of business before ultimately going belly-up from their unsustainable business model. And they're considered a success story.
Buut... It's just so difficult. Isn't it? The lure of that grand empire that we had. :/
They're still a long-ways away from playing globo-cop, but all that island-building in the South China Sea is pretty telling. They're also doing a lot of infrastructure investment in Africa.