Serious question: why not?

Because China doesn't have the hardware to do this? Or the brains?

You're obviously just a loser trying to rage bait. But China outclasses the West on "brains" and hours worked by an order of magnitude. In <10 years they've started entire industries where the west had half a century of r&d as a moat and have reached parity with the West in almost all cases in less than a decade.

	▲	sajithdilshan 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You do understand that China copied the R&D from west. It cannot be that China invented all the technology in < 10 years where other countries had to research for decades. One example is that Germany was the leading research in solar panels, but China was able to replicate and mass produce it, but without initial German investment on r&d, it would have taken decades longer for China to obtain that technology