I think you're seriously overestimating Chinese economic capabilities. They are still constrained by the same economic realities as everybody else, and -- much as we wish it were possible -- they cannot afford to just do whatever.
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"You can accomplish anything when you have vision, determination and an endless supply of expendable labor"
Presumably the problem there is that even a sea of expendable labour's useless, if what you need is a Von Braun[1]-esque figure and a paddling pool of engineering talent... .
[1] Korolev, Musk, &c.
The type of labour needed to build a space station isn't expendable.