>But the US might've found a way to police it effectively now... soooo why would we not?... That's just the thing though right? I mean, if the Chinese are eng

>But the US might've found a way to police it effectively now... soooo why would we not?... That's just the thing though right? I mean, if the Chinese are engaging in IP theft in a fashion that is both broad, (across all industries), and brazen, then how effective can our policing methods be? The only thing we can really do is stop trading with them. Which is really not going to stop them stealing ideas, nor will it stop their domestic market from growing. The reason every great power in history engaged in blatant IP theft, is because it really has been extremely difficult to prevent it throughout human history. (Greeks were really smart, so Romans and Egyptians stole metallurgy from them.) IP theft is just a hard problem.