If you built your success on theft when and how do you migrate to a non-theft approach? How do you overcome cultural inertia? How do you deal with falling behind in the years (decades?) it'll take to build the universities, industry, salaries, regulations, free market concessions, fair labor rights, etc to support real domestic innovation and a workforce incentivized to not steal?
Theft is the only way they can remain competitive and I don't believe they have or want an exit plan. The Chinese don't care about legitimacy. No autocratic one-party state does.
Theft is the only way they can remain competitive and I don't believe they have or want an exit plan. The Chinese don't care about legitimacy. No autocratic one-party state does.