The HMMWV went into service in 1984. The Chinese are copying it 20 years later and this is somehow impressive?
Under international law, patents expire after 20 years. It means that if your company spent the millions of dollars to develop something like antilock brakes or GPS, and hundreds of thousands more to obtain worldwide patent rights, your market share and your employees' job security will only last 20 years before somebody in Malaysia can build it for 20 cents an hour. You can either lower your prices cheaper than theirs, or you can go back to the drawing board and develop something new.