Industrial espionage is neither a chinese invention nor (specifically) chinese practice. American companies do it to each other even.

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mullingitover a day ago | parent | next [-]

The U.S. was openly a pirate nation for most of the 1800s.

Like with the ICC, the US respects or doesn’t respect international law strictly when it’s beneficial to the state’s interests. China really can’t be held to a different standard. This activity is grade school level geopolitics: the global system of government is anarchy.

	▲	gf000 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I love how people assume large powers have to do something. They are at most expected to do certain reasonable stuff (most of the time, a war is not beneficial to anyone so they try not to escalate that far), but there is not really global "law enforcement".

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applicative a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Agents of American companies who don't mind 15 years in the federal pen do it to American companies. So it must be right.