> I am not trying to say that Chinese startups don't have good ideas. But why do they have to blatantly copy US startups that are successful? Because the US st

> I am not trying to say that Chinese startups don't have good ideas. But why do they have to blatantly copy US startups that are successful? Because the US startup had a good idea but made it US-only and/or English-only. It's like 20 years ago when Detroit was complaining that it didn't sell many cars in Japan, one factor (there were many others) was that Japanese drive one the left-hand-side of the road and the US car-makers didn't make right-hand-drive models. With physical businesses (like zipcar or netflix) it's hard to build infrastructure everywhere at once but don't comlain if you ignore 6.5 billion customers ( 1 billion of whom are "rich" ) to concentrate on 310 million and somebody else decides copy you.