Germany has lost the top ranking it has held for decades, and China's machine tool industry has quietly become the Number 1 across the globe

[Beijingwalker]

China morally justify it as 100+years of western bandits stealing and pillaging China and forcing unfair treaties etc so its to them just payback.

Nevertheless China did steal a huge amount of IP, A billion dollar wind power company which set up in China had their IP espionaged away from them and overnight the windpower company and its software were stolen and their stocks folded and went bankrupt overnight basically.

Every country will "steal" every country's IP if they are capable of doing so and given the opportunity, no exceptions in the world history.

 

[Skukuza]

It is however, odd to hear of China wanting to protect "its intellectual property" when you consider how China has treated other people's intellectual property. Let's not kid ourselves here.

All's fair in love and war.. western proverb. Just add technology to that

 

[retaxis]

Every country will "steal" every country's IP if they are capable of doing so and given the opportunity, no exceptions in the world history.

Every country steals IP. The Israelis even steal so much from America including making nuclear bombs etc. Countries even steal from their direct allies.

 

[Beijingwalker]

After China becomes the leader in science and technology, it already is in many sectors now, I m pretty sure that the west will pull out all the stops to steal China's IP. They had an inglorious hisotry of looting and stealing around the world.