> they stole the IP, then used public funds to make cheaper versions in the hope of leading the markets
If you steal my IP and you make a better - or at least comparative but cheaper - product, that's on me for not innovating further.
If you steal my IP and you make a better - or at least comparative but cheaper - product, that's on me for not innovating further.
Chinese EV trucks make no economic sense even though they're 30% of China's fleet but also they're only investing all that as a trojan horse even though they use them almost exclusively domestically, plus the old "Asians don't innovate they just copy" canard even though there wasn't much Western IP on electric trucks to copy in the first place and China's battery technology is somehow not Alibaba knockoffs but more performant than Western equivalents (whilst state sponsored Chinese industries remain generations behind in stuff that's actually strategically critical for them to clone via industrial espionage like semiconductors and jet engines)