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China and Vietnam are the only countries worldwide which have executed bankers for corruption in recent decades. No ahem necessary.
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It's striking that they recently arrested one of the richest men in the country, the Evergrande founder, for fraud. Seems unthinkable in the US/Europe right now.
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Were they guilty?
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The people in China that made the decision on that antifreeze in toothpaste, and the 300 pigs in the river or that graffiti tower in Los Angeles across from the Staples Center. I don’t think those people walked.

That is not to say that in time they’ll start to do many of things that happens in the west where those at the 1% or 2% walk away, in time China may drop down to that level, on the other hand, I would like to believe the United States will start to have the same reaction that the country had when Sputnik went around the Earth and change course and I don’t mean sanctions, tariffs, wars, and threatening neighbors to the north and to the south.

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I can't imagine it going any other way than what we've seen from every other country in your set of examples, honestly.
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China actually penalizes, imprisons, and even executes its billionaires, so that’s different.
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The industrialization of USA comes after the civil war, thus long after e.g. Charles Dickens, to say nothing of Hamilton.
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Hamilton set the strategic agenda. Do you want to argue that US industrialization didn't follow the broad strokes of this plan?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report_on_Manufactures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_School_(economics)

Parallel: the industrialization of China for the most part happened after Deng Xiaoping, but are people wrong to credit him for setting the course?

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