> But they apparently can't innovate. Why not? We should look to protect our innovative abilities, more than we protect their products. What good does our abil

> But they apparently can't innovate. Why not? We should look to protect our innovative abilities, more than we protect their products. What good does our ability to innovate do, if the Chinese are there waiting at the end of the process to scoop up the fruits of those labours and use them free of the investment cost that it took to create them in the first place?