[daniel1212]

According to William Schneider Jr., "China has institutionalized a system that combines legal and illegal means of technology acquisition from abroad".[3] The issue is not limited to the United States, but is also reported in Europe,[13] and according to William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, China directs similar efforts towards other NATO members.[10] According to CNN, some U.S. officials and analysts have pointed to China's Made in China 2025 plan as "a rubric for the types of companies whose data Chinese hackers have targeted".[14]

According to a CNBC survey, 1 in 5 corporations say China has stolen intellectual property within the previous year, while 1 in 3 said it had happened some times during the previous century.[17] In 2020, FBI director Christopher Wray claimed Chinese economic espionage amounted to one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history.[13] According to CBS, Chinese state-actor APT 41 has conducted a cyber operation spanning years, stealing intellectual property worth trillions of dollars from about 30 multinational companies.[18] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_intellectual_property_infringement_by_China

[Navy Patriot]

Chinese hackers took trillions in intellectual property from about 30 multinational companies

Was that Prog Leftist Democrat Intellectual Property, or Real Intellectual Property?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

When I worked in China in 1976, I saw Gerber baby food jars with a smiling Chinese baby on the label. They clearly stole the glass jar shape, size, lid and label design.

At the fertilizer plant I was starting up, I saw the machine shop had a perfect Chinese knock-off of an American South Bend Lathe Company metal working lathe.

The only thing that’s changed is the speed at which they steal our corporate secrets, they no longer need to reverse-engineer American products, and the sheer volume of what they steal.

[BipolarBob]

If this is highly proprietary info, why is that computer connected to the internet?

[Vaduz]

If the Chinese didn’t steal ideas they wouldn’t have any.