On the topic of China and IP, I watched an interesting debate on China between two politicians recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEchkn3unl8. Funnily Vince Cable, arguing in favour of China as a friend to the West, defended their IP offences saying this is what lots of Western nations did to each other (and, arguably, though he doesn't make a big deal of it, China) on the way to becoming fully developed.