3D printing, cloud computing, big-data analytics, quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and new forms of energy. (5) The PRC’s leader Xi Jinping, who currently holds the role of State Chairman of the PRC, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, states that CCP plans to lessen the PRC’s reliance on foreign markets for goods and services by 2025 and a goal for at least seventy-percent self-sufficiency in MIC2025 areas by using foreign technology acquisitions and joint ventures to acquire, domestically produce, and then sell these goods abroad. (6) The PRC’s stated goal in its MIC2025 policy is to advance production in the PRC from products that are Made in China to those that are Created in China , using the underpinnings of MIC2025 to transform foreign innovations into a homegrown industrial base to promote scientific, technological, and manufacturing independence. (7) In 2021, the CCP’s Central Committee published a resolution on its self-made achievements over the course of the past century, stating that PRC self-reliance in science and technology and its bolstered … creation, protection, and application of intellectual property rights are key tenets of boosting the CCP’s position, while not including references to foreign trade or economic and commercial partnerships as a part of its advancement. (8) In November 2022, during the CCP’s Party Congress, the CCP noted again that science and technological innovation are core tenets of the PRC’s development and according to the PRC’s Ministry of Science and Technology, international collaborative science and technology efforts are ultimately focused on boosting the PRC’s security. (9) Importantly, that along with the MIC2025 plan, there is a policy of dual-circulation , both policies which are overseen by General Secretary Xi Jinping, that seek to transfer into the PRC the globe’s innovative technical ideas and products, produce them domestically for their own large population, and then sell them