To be fair, when it is good people copy anyway. All companies do benchmarks and analysis of competitors. The criticism of china was that you sent them a thing go produce and your design would appear somewhere else which could essentially bankrupt you business.

That said, I have the impression this still exists but is less and less relevant for them to keep doing it.

China is the one saying nations should gather and stop doing poo-poo decisions to economy while another one keeps saying that everyone else but them is evil.

I honestly think this scarcity and shortages are all artificial and caused by the same group of people. They don't even fake anymore

I don't know...