Can you show a few press articles in which that term is glorified as "stealing from the west" as GP mentions? As far as I can tell using translators, the usage is almost exclusively in articles talking about their own research, technical and scientific advancements, etc. Nothing that implies stealing.

So is that "translation" actually a translation or just the personal interpretation of GP based on their preferences and understanding?

P.S. I'm genuinely curious for those articles, just in case you're interested in supporting the idea that the word actually has a more "creative" translation. Shouldn't be hard to find given that there are "lots of Chinese nationalist stories in Chinese news reports and textbooks".