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Re:China lands rover on Mars by Symmetry on Saturday May 15, 2021 @06:33AM (#27164021)
"They're only copying" was also an accusation famously leveled by Britain against the US (see Lowell[1] and The Pirates of Penzance[2]) and by the US against Japan around the turn of the 20th century. Copying complex technologies is hard and countries that are able to succeed at it usually go on to become innovative.

[1]https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance#Backgr...

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Re:China lands rover on Mars by tbihl on Saturday May 15, 2021 @06:47AM (#27164087)
The US would then turn around and copy Japanese submarines in 1940s and 50s after the war (admittedly a smaller amount than what they copied from German designs.)
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