“I’m still yet to see anything fundamentally new coming from China.”
Correct.
The problem is that they have been industrializing while we have been de-industrializing.
Stealing our stuff works in that environment.
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We invent the widget.
They steal the invention.
We build five widgets.
They build ten widgets.
Sure...they are stealing too, have been for a while. I’ve seen businesses fail because their IP became publicly available (stolen and published online) in China.
That said, there’s many good *people* in China...but we need to restrict our highest tech from being freely available, they don’t respect intellectual property law while benefitting from it.