Did I miss something or is the *whole* premise of your argument that China should expect the US to play dirty? If that’s the case already then why should China be worried about the doing the same 2x harder?
Who said that, did you read my post properly? IP laws is like the nuclear MAD, nobody is going to break IP intentionally without plausible explanations because then the whole world will become like wild west.
US doesn't want it to happen as their companies are more value added and this value is based entirely upon IP.
China doesn't want it because they are already invested in many poor 3rd world countries with corrupted politics, can you imagine what would happen if China broke IP laws, every dictator and half would start openly cheating and stealing. In addition there are all internationally binding agreements China has signed, CAI, RCEP, WTO which stipulate IP protection.
And lets not forget that the EU which is "neutral" to the US-China rivalry depends on much lower value added companies like the US. If we broke IP, the most affected would be the EU as China is already starting to eat into EU's lunch, so dont be surprised if EU and US would team up and grind China's economy to the ground.
Let me repeat this again, IP laws is like nuclear MAD, China is playing into the large superpower club now and will not be allowed to play the same dirty tricks as it did a decade ago. Dont expect any more discussion about this topic as I find this discussion extremely naive and not worth anymore of my.time to counter argue