Chinese copying has so far been mostly skin deep.
Talks about how China stole aerospace IP from US, and how IP theft is a massive program operated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government, and shows this has been happening for a long time:
Anderson Says China's IP Theft Is Unprecedented: Video
Mark Anderson, chief executive officer of Strategic News Service, discusses the challenges faced by technology companies to protect intellectual property, and China's alleged IP theft. Anderson speaks with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness." (Source: Bloomberg)
IP theft is the backbone of Chinese scientific programs. Most Chinese students, workers and tourists in other countries are CCP agents and spies sent there to steal IP. This is in addition to massive amounts of IP theft by the Chinese hacker army, which is a huge entity funded by the Chinese Communist Party. The only way to stop Chinese IP theft is to cut off China from the global internet and to stop all Chinese citizens from entering other countries. Overseas Chinese citizens have no choice but to follow the CCP's commands because otherwise the CCP will imprison their family members in China.