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I guess I was right in being suspicious of western urbanists who were always deafeningly silent on massive projects in China but won’t shut up for weeks about the Dutch king taking a bike-shaped shit. This is how they respond when they are forcibly confronted with the topic.
By the way, why would you care even a little about stolen technology? Are you profiting from the technology? The only stolen technology I could entertain caring about is weapons. If you bankrupted Microsoft by stealing and FOSSing Microsoft office, I’d thank you and ask how you managed that when libre office exists already.
“China is undermining the ability of our domestic bourgeoisie to steal the surplus labor from the working class” doesn’t ring so clear.