My father was invited to review their largest dam project while it was still being poured as part of the professional engineering ASCE Concrete Board. Saw a row of 10 concrete batch mixers: 3 were painted in their original Dutch colors, two working. The third had been stripped down, dis-assembled, and copied. The next 7 concrete plants were in identical Chinese green paint. All running.
A competitor turbine company’s field engineer told me they shipped the complex blade packages for a new power plant turbine (900 Megawatt) to China. But it got hung up” in customs for a three weeks. Was received on site, all the carefully gas-tight shrink-wrapped plastic ripped off and removed from one of every blade set. Wiped off of the preservatives, then put back in the cartons and shipping crates. Obviously removed, cleaned, 3D microscoped and scanned and measured, then re-packages.
They never made another sales again in China. Always got underbid by the local Chinese company for some reason.
They will steal anything that they want. It’s their culture and has been for thousands of years................