Wikipedia article [1] says that US has been also involved in industrial espionage: > In 1999, Enercon, a German company and leading manufacturer of wind energy

Wikipedia article [1] says that US has been also involved in industrial espionage: > In 1999, Enercon, a German company and leading manufacturer of wind energy equipment, developed a breakthrough generator for wind turbines. After applying for a US patent, it had learned that Kenetech, an American rival, had submitted an almost identical patent application shortly before. By the statement of a former NSA employee, it was later discovered that the NSA had secretly intercepted and monitored Enercon's data communications and conference calls and passed information regarding the new generator to Kenetech Also, other article [2] mentions that West had earlier stolen a secret of porcelain manufacturing from China. Are those the examples of proper, not dubious "ethics" that we should learn from? Did Europeans returned the stolen secret? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial_espionage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#Origins