See Ha-Joon Chang's Bad Samaritans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Samaritans:_The_Myth_of_Fr...
"Free Trade" and strong "intellectual property" regimes are tools of economically dominant, not upstart, countries.
Related:
Chamber's Encyclopaedia, Editorial Statement, Revised Edition, 1874: Or a 19th Century Edit War
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4xe2k1/chamber...
("Free trade" plays a role.)