“Patents mean nothing these days. The Chinese do not care about patents.”
Maybe not IN China, but OUTSIDE China patents matter. The EU and the US will not allow a Chinese product that violates a patent to be sold.
According to your logic, no one should ever file a patent because the Chinese could steal it and sell it worldwide, which is simply not true.
They would steal it for their own use. Something of this order of magnitude, if it’s for real, would be a game changer for everybody. The EU and the US would be busy trying to steal it as well as Russia and even Malawi if they could get away with it. I’ve worked with Asian manufacturer’s for products we designed in the US but were to be produced in their country. You order 20,000 units. They make 50,000 and sell the others under their own brand name....................