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I fee like it’s sort of turnabout is fair play given how much technology the colonial powers stole from China.

• okthen87 8y ago
  I am unable to identify any technology which was stolen by any colonial power from China. Nuclear reactors? Machine guns? Bombs? Steam engines? Cannons? Gunpowder "Theft" dates back to the 14th century. I think everyone will agree that this is realllllly stretching it.
  • est31 8y ago
    Paper money was invented by the Chinese first, but AFAIK historians have consensus that when the Italians adopted paper money later on, they had the idea independently from the Chinese. The secret of porcelain making was guarded well by the Chinese, eventually Saxons (or the British, it's disputed who was first) figured it out without their help.
  • Leary 8y ago
    Bombs and Cannons were both Chinese inventions.
    • pbhjpbhj 8y ago
      Patents expire in under 20 years, and on apply in the country of issue, I think we're safe in terms of international treaty obligations. China signed up to the Berne Convention of 1886 on copyright in 1992, three years after USA implemented it. Berne gives a minimum term of 50 years (loosely speaking) and covers all signatory countries. Perhaps they shouldn't have signed, or sought to reduce the copyright term?
  • esalman 8y ago
    Not exactly technology theft, but one example which comes to my mind is illegal clinical drug trial on population in developing countries like China and India. It still benefits Western/colonial powers (drug companies). Not that it makes the hacking ethical but still somewhat 'fair'.