These sour grapes comments are so goofy, and honestly a little racist. The millions of Chinese engineers working out in China are extremely talented, and to downplay their achievements like this and to chalk them all up as thieves is ridiculous. They have the skills, the man power, and the vision, and they’re eating the West’s lunch regardless of your feelings on how fair it is.
I don't think it's that, so much as the average western citizen isn't able to go and create a knock off of a new invention / product and have it sold without legal consequences. That has been available to many Chinese citizens though.
