If we’re out here trying to prevent them from growing because we are afraid of being eclipsed by them, then it makes sense that they would want to grow larger than us so they can prevent us from interfering with their growth. But consider this! We could collaborate with them so that their growth helps our growth. We could import educated students and factory materials from China to build up our economy. We could import high speed trains in addition to building our own so we can grow a clean transportation network while creating many railroad jobs.
You’re basically saying “they’re competing with us so it makes sense for us to compete back!” Yeah, or it makes sense to rewrite the rules and stop looking at this as competition.
> Why is it OK that China has virtually no IP enforcement?
I strongly believe that intellectual property restrictions are a net negative for the world so it’s actually great that China does this.