> But if an HIV vaccine were invented in China today, the USA would do everything they could to steal it or invalidate any patents on it. This seems to not mat

> But if an HIV vaccine were invented in China today, the USA would do everything they could to steal it or invalidate any patents on it. This seems to not match the behavior that we actually see in other fields. In the situation of folding smartphones, for example, the first manufacturer was Korean. The Chinese solution was to poach staff and steal trade secrets from a contract manufacturer, while the US solution has been to just buy the resulting devices as consumer products.