The blatant copying of the successful ideas of others to the maximum extent legally allowable under one's prevailing legal jurisdiction is an activity pursued profitably by people of many ethnic groups and nationalities.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/08/how-app-store-grifters-...

http://mashable.com/2012/07/02/zynga-games-similar-to-others...

http://www.technofileonline.com/texts/the2steves92.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso....

http://mashable.com/2007/01/03/studivz/

etc...

There may be companies or individuals that does so but generalising is definitely not the way to go

Exactly. The Chinese refuse to acknowledge intellectual property. It seems embedded in their culture.

Just as it used to be embedded in American culture: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva75.html

Just as it used to be embedded in Finnish companies: http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3294545/nokias-pureview-ads...

I don't have anything against the beautiful Chinese people or their culture. I was just stating what I see as a well-known fact.