Once upon a time, Americans didn't care about violating European (largely British) copyright. I expect at some point, the Chinese will start moving to protect the "originality" of their near copies which will get more legitimately original over time.

Unfortunately it's really difficult to produce cultural products (films, TV, books, etc.) in China because you never know when the censors are going to shut you down -- unless what you've produced is so bland there's no way anyone could find it objectionable.

This will have to be fixed before China can start producing its own export-quality cultural products.

They will be led to believe these rights exist when there's sufficient Chinese artistic IP that people from abroad want to use.

They aren't going to push for limited copyight terms though.