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Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by jdnenej on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:11AM (#21200816)
The lack of IP law in china will allow them to progress much much faster.
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Re:U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s to... by yorwba on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:55AM (#21201018)
China does have IP law, and the big companies sue each other for copyright infringement all the time, e.g. https://technode.com/2019/04/26/baidu-bytedance-lawsuits-con...

There's a lot of talk about political censorship in China, but the majority of the content I've seen removed was not political, but in violation of copyright.

What China does not have is a legal system that is both able and willing to stop all instances of copyright infringement (or most other crimes, for that matter). So you get a lot of small-scale operations flying under the radar for as long as possible and vanishing as soon as they risk punishment.

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