You've got to be trolling with your statement: >>Why should china (or any country) have to subscribe to an IP system under which they don't own as many patents

You've got to be trolling with your statement: >>Why should china (or any country) have to subscribe to an IP system under which they don't own as many patents. Is is fine if I steal from you because I don't have as much money as you do? Or, would you prefer that I don't "subscribe to" your notion of money in your pocket as wealth because I don't have as much and therefore it is perfectly moral to take yours? Come on - let's have a rational discussion here.