My point in all of this is that the Chinese did not actually steal everything from us. A lot of it we simply handed to them. Then, many of their people studied in American schools and then returned home to innovate new products.
The learning process is global and always has been.
Communist China regularly hacks others' systems and violates their patents, enabling CCP-aligned companies to skip research costs and timelines in order to go right to production.
It's how they operate.
https://a-capp.msu.edu/article/a-brief-analysis-of-the-chinese-intellectual-property-regime/