Hot take: Even if China did “steal” technology from the US, who cares? Why are we defending US corporations all of a sudden? You don’t think they haven’t done their fair share of stealing? In fact, I don’t care if US companies stole tech from China or any country stealing tech from any other country. All competition benefits us peasants in the end, and you, fellow nobody who’s probably not a Fortune 500 CEO, are not the one being stolen from. China making something with alleged US technology will not deprive US citizens of said technology. And get this, if China “steals” your tech to build something better than you have now, you can then “steal” their improvements right back, because “stealing” or more formally, copying of technology is an ancient phenomenon that only started being vilified with the copyright and patent era. People have openly copied each other’s innovations for the vast majority of human history, and the most important inventions of the human race have arisen from people copying other people’s ideas and building on them. Imagine how ridiculous it would be if China was able to patent their invention of paper, or the compass, or gunpowder, and prevented Europe from “stealing” those technologies. Imagine if Ancient Greece patented bronze and successfully prevented the technology from proliferating into a brand new era of humanity. The second person to figure out fire probably watched the first person behind their back.