• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Yes, and I support China stealing whatever it deems productive it steal in terms of IP from the US. The point is that there’s a trope about China only being able to make knock-offs and only having the success it has from stealing which is ultimately a chauvinist caricature.

        • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          It’s a jingoistic caricature. I’m not informed enough to know the difference what the difference between standards are for products of the two countries.

          I do agree there is a common sentiment that Chinese products are inferior to their American counterparts. If China or the USA want to steal product specs from each other to make better products that we end up buying, cool. I’d rather buy better products and I’m sure you would too.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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        1 year ago

        Right, every country and company engages in tech espionage. Yet, a lot of people in the west pretend as if China is some unique outlier in that regard.

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          1 year ago

          I understand that the pro China sentiments are strong here and I’m going to be downvoted. I live in the DC area and people around here are aware that everyone is involved in espionage. Russia does it all the time too.

          No one believes that china is the only one doing this. Their capacity to do so may be stronger than most countries (same with USA)

          It’s always going to be an issue for every advanced country.

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            1 year ago

            I’m sure the lobbyists and congresscritters in DC have a more realist view in private. Doesn’t really change what sort of sentiment they push to the masses.

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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            1 year ago

            I’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make here. Yes, every country spies to the best of their capacity, that’s the nature of the game. While no sane person believes that China is the only one doing this, we constantly get media stories framed that way and there are a lot of mouth breathers running around screeching that China steals western tech. I think the only actual issue is the existence of copyrights and intellectual property. These stand directly in the way of human advancement and should be abolished.

            • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              Well of course USA media isn’t going to say “USA got caught stealing IP from china” or anything like that. I’d wager that China doesn’t do it either lol. They both accuse each other while at the same time reaching into each others back pockets. Ones not better than the other.