Personally, I don't consider that IP is something that is universal or that can be stolen.His brain has been rotten from all this think-tank bs.
China "stole" the IP by legal and over the board means where they contractually mandated certain conditions for foreign enterprises to enter the domestic market. And foreign enterprises weren't stupid, they tried to stall development as much as they could and only give the bare minimum. And even then, the government needed to dedicate enormous resources for the 'IP' to be actually transferred. Either pure (often outdated) IP or skill transfer.
Reality is much more complex than what these single digit IQ think-tankers think with their singleton brains.
It is a totally arbitrary definition that is supported by dominant countries to remain dominant, but they didn't apply it when they were weak.
The US didn't stop industrializing with vapor engines because England had the intellectual property
And you can stretch it even more. Does someone pay intellectual property to the Arabs for using algebra developed by them?
Someone decided that the design of a chip is IP but the discernment of mathematical rules not.
Any country and company have the right to develop whatever they want (and are able to do) without caring if that thing was previously invented by another company