You've never done business with China, have you?

The scale and breath of intellectual property theft leaves one gasping for air.

This isn't some kind of a secret. Anyone in manufacturing knows exactly what I am talking about. People who don't make physical products for a living have absolutely no idea.

You can find clones of just about anything you can possibly imagine on Alibaba. Anything. That's a breath and scale that is impossible to sustain without systemic factors.