Infringement and copyrights committed by China

[TaiShang]

this is a fallacy. you cant just steal someone stuff and when get caught you argue that my stuff got stolen too. is that kind of practice exist in china? not to mention the british admit what they get while the china just shameless cover up. another the thing is when talk about stealing, faking, in china is not a few cases but a whole culture of stealing and faking everything. when talk about stealing the question is how much you steal and how many times you steal and what you steal. its not, hey somebody just stole my cheap dell laptop so i should go bestbuy and steal a mac as compensate, and when i got caught i just argue well that how it happen.

Vietnam should start stealing because, in terms of percentage, its GDP today is much smaller than it was in the 1970s vis-a-vis China.

 

[JSCh]

this is a fallacy. you cant just steal someone stuff and when get caught you argue that my stuff got stolen too. is that kind of practice exist in china? not to mention the british admit what they get while the china just shameless cover up. another the thing is when talk about stealing, faking, in china is not a few cases but a whole culture of stealing and faking everything. when talk about stealing the question is how much you steal and how many times you steal and what you steal. its not, hey somebody just stole my cheap dell laptop so i should go bestbuy and steal a mac as compensate, and when i got caught i just argue well that how it happen.

I am not justifying stealing as you seem to suggest. Stealing trade secret is not the same as stealing an object. It is the learning and using of knowledge without consent. So your example seem a bit strange and inappropriate.

I am just pointing out the hypocrisy of the west, because they were far more blatant in using dirty trick to gain an advantage.

It is like you said and other poster pointed out, the article show that the author is not embarrassed, did not deny or trying to hide that it happened. He is practically proud and boast of the act of stealing tea's trade secret. I bet if tea is found in India, the British would just outright rob/take it. They only steal because they cannot rob it from China. Because China is not a British colony.

This is how the article's author defend the act of stealing of tea's trade secret,

To meet this huge demand at home, tea to sell in Britain was bought from China by the London-based East India Company in exchange for opium grown on its plantations in India.

It was a fair (if pernicious) swop. Britons got their drug of choice, the Chinese theirs.

But this cosy set-up began to falter when the Chinese started growing their own opium.

The British response was tit-for-tat. It was time to smash China's hold on the tea trade and grow the plant themselves in India, in the foothills of the Himalayas which most resembled the best tea-producing areas of China.
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First, he/she called the FORCE exchange under violence/goat boat diplomacy of opium for tea as fair !! Opium Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And secondly, he/she think since the Chinese decided to grow their own opium, then it is justifiable for British to have a tit-for-tat to steal tea from China?? What kind of crooked logic is that??