It’s been a cultural thing with them for thousands of years.
Intellectual Property is a foreign concept to them.
They have no qualms about ‘stealing’ technology, because they don’t see it as stealing.
If a person develops a better wheel, they will use that technology to make wheels. It just common sense to them..................
This wasn’t even technology. It was stealing answers to exams (Maybe that’s a sort of technology.) The Americans for the most part were playing by the rules, and the cheating Asians were riding roughshod over them.
I have several Chinese friends, but they and their parents were born in America, and I do see any of that mindset in them.