Most technological invention is paid for by the US government investment. Name any high technology and it's lineage points back to some government grant or purchase agreement.
Companies that use these inventions and innovate on top to bring them to market are themselves using technology we paid for. But we don't call that "stealing". Do you think they care that China also gets them?
Knowledge should be shared and free anyway.
A falsehood. The US was one of the primary innovators during the industrial revolution, along with Germany, Britain and France. In the oil/mining, steel, railroad/transport, electricity, building, manufacturing, automobile, farming and communication segments the US held its own when it came to invention in the 1870-1930 era. It doesn't take very long to canvas the major industrial segments and point to various large US contributions.
The recent claim that the US stole all of its industrial revolution era technology, is an empty defamation that you mostly only see on sites like Reddit as a propaganda angle, and it's always unsupported in argument.
a) The deal china made with US companies is bring us your technology and we will manufacture for you cheaply.
b) Giving technology as part of a deal and then retroactively calling it stealing is, well, strange.
c) America because what it was because it "stole" technology from Europe during the industrial revolution.
American companies understood what they were getting into and what the deals were and took them. China didn't force US companies to make those deals.