Beijing is starting to worry that the rest of the world will steal its advanced technology. The Chinese military is calling for stronger protection of the country’s intellectual property, particularly in sensitive defence areas. Supercomputers, drones, rocket launchers and the like, were singled out as areas where ‘generations’ of Chinese research cannot be allowed to be put at risk.
Give China credit where it’s due: not in its technology, but in its gall.
China is the world’s largest or second-largest economy (depending on how you count) because of its size, its hard-working labor force, its focus on STEM education, its relentless government policy, etc, etc.
But also because it cheats. China has been robbing the West blind for decades, stealing everything from private business innovations to nearly every US defence program. Wonder why Chinese companies undercut American solar panel businesses? Surprised at how China’s next-generation stealth fighter looks exactly like the F-22 Raptor? Because the intellectual property has been stolen.
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