> Just by reading Chinese news reports and textbooks, you will find there are lots of Chinese nationalist stories about their hero technician / scientists steal western technologies.

Can you kindly provide an example of this? I searched "打破技术封锁" on Baidu and first page gives me advancements from research.

http://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&ch=&t...