In the words of Elon Musk "If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book". From high speed trains, to maglev, to wind turbines, to kickstarter designs, to brands, designs, even entire styles of european and american cities like Paris, Venice, & London, the Chinese are notorious for stealing and reselling knockoffs of technologies. They simply rebrand it as "Chinese innovation".

Every group of people have a desire for power and world domination, they all just use different methods. And for the Chinese, intellectual colonization seems to be working.