There is so much ingenuity in this thread....
The China is only big today because the big countries supported China dictatorship by installing their corporations there.
The people here don't know history. Usually, discatorships can maintain the workers with low salary without protests, and couple this with low rates, they attract a lot of the large corporations to their country.
The USA's funded dictatorships in South America made this to grow their economy.
The difference is that China has acquired knowledge of the companies that settled there, to create their own brands and develop their technology. The west made a monster. They are dependent of our consumers, but we are dependet of their cheap workers.