The somewhat ‘funny’ thing is this... All anyone who ever thought of doing business with China, (either one, Peoples Republic or just Republic), had to do is walk through the open air markets of Taipei or Beijing and look at the goods for sale.
It’s all right there in plain view that, Intellectual Property, either copyrights or patents are just a vague guideline and that is is not only permissible to steal them but very profitable too. But noooo... these guys, (foreign devil businessmen), are too smart, they ‘know’ that when dealing with the upper levels of Chinese society that theft of IP is ‘just not done’.
And they just become another sheared sheep, slaughtered cow, etc. and that the next ‘too smart’ businessman will ignore their warnings to him and the cycle will continue.
We stole gunpowder from them so we owe them.