> has no concept of integrity as we know it in the west By west, do you mean Great Britain? > U.S. commentators complain that China's success has been predica

> has no concept of integrity as we know it in the west By west, do you mean Great Britain? > U.S. commentators complain that China's success has been predicated on chicanery (like the manipulation of the yuan), dubious business practices and wanton disregard for copyrights. In doing so, they echo things that British commentators once said about America's rise, back when New England factories used reverse engineering to mimic the latest Lancashire technological breakthroughs and Dickens complained of making no money from the pirated copies of his novels sold in the country. To use a line often attributed — probably inaccurately — to Mark Twain, history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. And this is one of those cases. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2029400,00.html http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2029400... This is the exact same strategy that the US used to get ahead (including the high tariffs too). To chastise china for this is hypocrisy.