China will forever be 30 years behind the U.S., in terms of both technology and defense.
Why?
1. The Chinese military generals become the super rich by selling the military titles for money, and by stealing hundreds of billions of money from the defense fund, and then ship the stolen money abroad to buy real estate for themselves. The actual spending of the defense money on military is very limited.
2. China could have been 5 times more rich and strong, if primer Wen Jia Bao had not stolen tens of billions of people's money from the stock market. His leading role in corruption has encouraged millions of the corrupted officials to steal tens of trillions of money from China's treasury, and then shipped abroad for buying the real estate.
3. Seeing no hope for the future of China, Majority of the rich Chinese and the retired officials have either already emigrated abroad or been preparing for the abandon of the ship China, leaving a polluted and poor China behind.
How could China ever catch up with the U.S. when both China's military and government have already corrupted to the spinal core because of the rampant corruption of Hu and Wen's government?