Many Americans and politicians look at China's vast productive capacity and believe that we just need to model it and all we be good. You can move from totalitarianism toward freedom and have an improvement in standard of living but it doesn't go in the other direction.

Every Economic Colapse Begins like this - Tom Bilyeu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcgCdIZjL-Y

Wall Street Journal on Automated Dark Factories in China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBdcNA_FsI