> A few examples of excellence that are still available to Chinese citizens are the NBA, Apple products, US education and Tesla cars.
I disagree on NBA (sportsmen are not a sign of overall excellence in a country), and Apple (high-end Huawei phones are ridiculously more advanced than apple in hardware terms). USA Education still has a great reputation, and most Musk enterprises are awesome and inspiring.
I had a Huawei Mate 20X, back when apple still did single-camera flagships. Compared to my wife's iPhone XS Max, it beat it in many hardware metrics:
- Bigger screen
- More RAM
- 50% bigger battery
- 3 high quality cameras, with night mode and macro zoom (2020 iPhone still can't do macro, and night mode is improvable)
The iPhone still came ahead in overall performance, and the newer iPhones have addressed some of these disadvantages, at the cost of losing features like the fingerprint reader (Mate 20X had it in the back, very comfortable to use). Mate had face unlock, but it was 2D, not the more secure 3D map the iPhone does.
I disagree on NBA (sportsmen are not a sign of overall excellence in a country), and Apple (high-end Huawei phones are ridiculously more advanced than apple in hardware terms). USA Education still has a great reputation, and most Musk enterprises are awesome and inspiring.