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>The IP [intellectual property] is not protected in China

>China expressed interest in December 2010 in an email to Pelamis: “It is decided that His Excellency, Mr Li Keqiang, vice-premier of the state council of China, and the delegation (60 people) headed by him will pay a visit to the Pelamis Sea Energy Converter

TLDR: the chinese probably copied something again

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This is why I expect the Chinese to start demonstrating reusable first-stage rockets in the next 5 years. I'd hate to be a security officer at SpaceX or Blue Origin.

They've also hacked quite a few US renewable energy companies in the past and stolen their IP.

China is playing a catch-up game and it plays by its own rules and it's too big for anyone to tell them off.

At what is it no longer considered catch-up? when they have a 10 trillion $ GDP? when their unemployment rate is under 4% and have an average gross salary greater than 10k a year?

China has already caught up, this is just how they do business.

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