China's strategy has always been the same - wait for others to bleed in their blood and money on R&D and when the technology is ripe and well working, simply rip it off effortlessly and sell it a lower price point, most of the times not even caring about quality/safety compromises.
We saw this with the Japanese bullet trains, we saw this with self driving tech, and now it's display tech.
You could argue that the consumers benefit the most over time. But it's definitely unfair to those who have dedicated their lives to researching these technologies, only to see it get stolen and even re-licensed as China's own (as what happened with the bullet trains).
The rest of the world should stop playing by Chinese's rules and be firm in their stance like the US - Eg. if China doesn't enforce strict IP rules, then people should seek alternatives and stop dealing with them. Even India/Vietnam/Malaysia/etc. are better bets in comparison. Especially when these schemes are sponsored by the Chinese government 9 times out of 10.
Wasn’t that Japan’s strategy in the 70s and South Korea’s in the 90s?
And I’m pretty sure that was the US strategy during the Industrial Revolution. Or the European strategy when it came to stealing Chinese silk making methods.
Whataboutism. As always, two Wrongs don’t make a Right, and OP is not even talking about the morality of it (everyone agrees it is immoral) but about countermeasures.
Theft is immoral. I can't just sneak into your home, steal your stuff and walk away saying you're holding mankind back, can I? That's the analogy in the OP.
We saw this with the Japanese bullet trains, we saw this with self driving tech, and now it's display tech.
You could argue that the consumers benefit the most over time. But it's definitely unfair to those who have dedicated their lives to researching these technologies, only to see it get stolen and even re-licensed as China's own (as what happened with the bullet trains).
The rest of the world should stop playing by Chinese's rules and be firm in their stance like the US - Eg. if China doesn't enforce strict IP rules, then people should seek alternatives and stop dealing with them. Even India/Vietnam/Malaysia/etc. are better bets in comparison. Especially when these schemes are sponsored by the Chinese government 9 times out of 10.