The Washington Post has the article China’s breathtaking transformation into a scientific superpower.

I have cut out the bad ideas and kept the good ideas in the excerpt below.

The best response to this technological competition is to reinvigorate America’s own technological base. … increase other federal spending on “basic research.” (Government provides most of the money for this research, which is the quest for knowledge for its own sake, and amazingly has cut spending in recent years).
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It is hardly surprising that China has hitched its economic wagon to advanced technologies. What is less clear and more momentous is our willingness and ability to recognize this and do something about it.

If you don’t like the outcome when you play by your strategy, perhaps it is time to consider why the opponent’s strategy is working so well. It is silly to claim that the other side is cheating because they have come up with a better strategy. Of course they don’t want to play by your rules. Your rules are designed to make you win.