| ▲ | thesmtsolver2 3 hours ago | |
> The US did the same thing. Except that there were no global standards at the time. You can't point to any single country and say they were doing worse. They all were bad. But China actively flouted established international norms. Now that is behind in AI it is clamoring for controls for others. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3692695 > are trying to pull the ladder they used up Every country spies and steals but it is the scale we are talking about. China does it at a scale that dwarfs any historical or current comparisons. China doesn't have any grounds here when they turn around and complain about India copying its playbook: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/renewables/chi... | ||
| ▲ | dingaling an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> Except that there were no global standards at the time England had a patent system from the mid 15th Century which emigrants to the New World brazenly ignored in order to set up their own industry. Of course, they then pulled the ladder up behind themselves in 1790 with the establishment of their own patent system... | ||