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Do American companies manufacture anything in China? Yes. Do Chinese companies manufacture anything in USA? No.

So USA can only watch, while China can actually steal.

Do you need to see manufacturing processes to steal features? Is it not possible to reverse engineer a lot of it?

In the car industry, it's standard practice for every company to buy every model from every other company to study it.

It still is easier to copy, when you own manufactiring process.