They already have all the IP - they’ve stolen it. Of course, that does nothing for them outside of the Chinese market because of international laws. What they really need is access to external talent to give them the practical skills of running a process development program to completion (HVM) and access to the high tech equipment and legal access to IP for external markets. These Joint Ventures (where China insisted on 51% ownership by the Chinese partner) are antithetical to the broader interests of international commerce.
Western governments have and should continue implementing sanctions and laws to protect their own semiconductor manufacturers from these predatory practices and ensure a secure and stable marketplace. We have to do this to protect our own companies capitalist behaviors from dooming themselves by succumbing to the temptation of short term gains offered by the Chinese.
These are questions for us to answer.
1) Do we believe that the Chinese or any other large technological economy cannot create unique IP?
2) Is any human population naturally inferior in IQ so as to prevent their technological advancement?
3) Are their any benefits to larger populations in approaching many problems?
Assuming that a Gaussian distribution as applied to IQ is correct, can't we also assume that a population 4X can produce 4X the number of IQ (x) to work on solving hard problems?
The Chinese ARE using these methods to advance their development more rapidly and cheaply, BUT all the thinking in trying to isolate anyone will eventually backfire. What happens if, and most probably when, they are ahead? Do we then demand that they share their superior tech? How is this supposed to work?
Gut reactions can end in the opposite result intended. This is a difficult issue to solve.
Some might see this as defending the Chinese, although I don't believe I am, but for sure, we need to think differently.
I'm editing this this to add what might be a very disturbing link. Apologies to those offended.:
From water-powered textile mills, to mechanical looms, much of the machinery that powered America's early industrial success was "borrowed" from Europe.
www.history.com
Quote:
"Long before the United States began accusing other countries of stealing ideas, the U.S. government encouraged intellectual piracy to catch up with England’s technological advances. According to historian Doron Ben-Atar, in his book, Trade Secrets, “the United States emerged as the world's industrial leader by illicitly appropriating mechanical and scientific innovations from Europe.”
Among those sniffing out innovations across the Atlantic was Harvard graduate and Boston merchant, Francis Cabot Lowell. As the War of 1812 raged on, Lowell set sail from Great Britain in possession of the enemy’s most precious commercial secret. He carried with him pirated plans for Edmund Cartwright’s power loom, which had made Great Britain the world’s leading industrial power.
Halfway across the Atlantic, a British frigate intercepted Lowell’s ship. Although the British double-searched his luggage and detained him for days, Lowell knew they would never find any evidence of espionage for he had hidden the plans in the one place they would never find them—inside his photographic mind. Unable to find any sign of spy craft, the British allowed Lowell to return to Boston, where he used Cartwright’s design to help propel the Industrial Revolution in the United States."
This is what countries do.
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