China is hitting America hard, using US methods.
After US pressure, the Chinese terminals at the Panama Canal were closed/expropriated.
US 1 : China 0
China declares that any shipping company using these terminals will be banned from Chinese ports.
US 1 : China 5
All global (large) shipping companies using the Panama Canal cannot afford to lose access to Chinese ports. That would be a death sentence.
Applying US methods is another way of successful “copying.”