So... what the article is REALLY saying is that China is in the process of stealing cooling technology from the US. The US hasn’t finished development and testing so China is awaiting further espionage intel.
Got it.
Wonder if there’s way to allow “bad” info to get stolen by China so that when they put their designs in production, they crap out quickly?
Exactly. China keeps people in the U.S. patent office who do nothing but study publicly-available new patent filings, looking for ideas. This, of course, is in addition to their usual theft from their American employers and universities. As you say, if the Chinese develop something before the U.S., it’s only because they aren’t constrained by Western notions about testing, regulations, fine-tuning, etc.
.China is in the process of stealing cooling technology from the US.
Exactly so. Chinese technology is reverse engineering, or outright theft.