Doomjedi: Especially one that habitually and routinely pirates literally everyone else's intellectual property...
toxicTom: Nope, the Western corps gave away their IP out of simple greed - to produce more cheaply. First the former workers (now unemployed) at home suffered for that, later those companies realized they shot themselves severely in the foot. Because right next to their factory, the Chinese would erect their own factory with the same product, only even cheaper. That was completely legal, all laid out in contracts the managers from the West signed, blinded by "cost reductions" and smiling and humble little Chinese officials.
You can blame the Chinese for doing business very shrewdly. But who really fucked up that were the managers of the Western companies.
Just gonna be blunt here kid: the CCP regime does not recognize intellectual property rights. At all. They've been the major sourrce of software piracy since the 1970's for that very reason. I realize that may strike you as an obscure concept in place of that bizarre rant you just subjected me to, but fact remains fact. If it exists communists will attempt to steal it from you, at gun point if necessary.
Better for literally everyone else on the planet to let them slowly bleed themselves out trying.
