Am I allowed to make an assumption? Chinas biggest advantage over anyone are their industrial spies. China has been unseen in the early 2000s, but they sucked

Am I allowed to make an assumption? Chinas biggest advantage over anyone are their industrial spies. China has been unseen in the early 2000s, but they sucked up everything they could! I think the rebuilding Neuschwanstein in China should have been a huge warning sign then. After that they just used their brightest people (and they have a lot!) to spy on every piece of technology they can. How could they have become so big so fast? German IT infrastructure made it easy to go everywhere and just grab what they wanted... And now we are whining about their technologic advantage.