You are correct, but I dislike the tone that what they do is "typically Chinese" or what Chinese do.
* When Chinese were ahead, European stole and smuggled manufacturing technologies from China.
* Industrial revolution in the United States was started by ruthlessly stealing the British innovations. Samuel Slater -- the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" -- is known as "Slater the Traitor" in Britain.
* Japanese stole and copied every design and technology from the US and Europe they could from the start of Meiji era 1868- to 1960s.
Piracy is not a theft in a sense that it's just illegal, not fundamentally immoral. I think it's actually cool historical constant that moves the world ahead.
* When Chinese were ahead, European stole and smuggled manufacturing technologies from China.
* Industrial revolution in the United States was started by ruthlessly stealing the British innovations. Samuel Slater -- the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" -- is known as "Slater the Traitor" in Britain.
* Japanese stole and copied every design and technology from the US and Europe they could from the start of Meiji era 1868- to 1960s.
Piracy is not a theft in a sense that it's just illegal, not fundamentally immoral. I think it's actually cool historical constant that moves the world ahead.