It wasn’t unintentional. China demanded technology transfer for access to their market: https://www.npr.org/2010/11/22/131520776/china-s-technology-transfer-dra

It wasn’t unintentional. China demanded technology transfer for access to their market: https://www.npr.org/2010/11/22/131520776/china-s-technology-transfer-draws-ire https://www.npr.org/2010/11/22/131520776/china-s-technology-... Not countering this policy early on was naive on behalf of US/European politics.