In case you aren't aware, the reason we have intellectual property is because we have 300 years of human history showing that countries without intellectual pro

In case you aren't aware, the reason we have intellectual property is because we have 300 years of human history showing that countries without intellectual property never innovate anything. The countries of the world adopted intellectual property rights, even though the nobility of Europe resisted for over a century, because they were forced to just to keep up with Britain. We also have 300 years of history showing what happens to countries who adopt policies that China do (it used to be called Mercantilism). It has always been an excellent system for copying superior countries and catching up with them. It is also an excellent system for launching economic (and real) warfare against your enemies, but in the end it always leads to stagnation (which in turn leads to these kind of countries using their state power for the only thing it is really good for - war). History shows that this will be the path China takes. We can only hope China begins to suffer from the stagnation part before they destroy the world.