"Chinese University" is an arm of the Chinese state and potentially also of the CCP. It's not a purely commercial third party.
"Hey, we licensed that patent from $(thief). We thought it was legit! We're innocent. All the liability for our infringement falls on $(thief)."
He said one one of the ways they catch soldiers who go AWOL is to show up when they file for veterans benefits.
The vast majority of academics in China are exactly the same as academics in the US and Europe. They are not arms of the Chinese state.
It's frankly getting very tiresome to see literally everything and everyone in China painted in this conspiratorial, bad-faith manner.