[oldandtired]

> It’s about illegal, state sponsored theft of intellectual property. Are you asking why people should be upset another country is attacking companies based in the US and stealing their technology?

It is state sponsored appropriation of knowledge not "illegal state sponsored theft of intellectual property". The USA government sponsors this kind of appropriation of knowledge all the time, so why is anyone upset when the Chinese government (or any other government for that matter) does this?

This is simply a fact of life and has been the action of governments and other organisations for millennia.

[ctvo]

You need to post a citation where the US government is actively sponsoring hacking of systems owned by private companies with the aim of stealing their IP to give US based companies an economic edge.

There is no analogy here between the US, EU, et al and China until you provide this.

[oldandtired]

I gave one example of this that I personally know. Over the years I have seen this same scenario discussed by all sorts of people (business owners, technologists, etc). It various ways, this has even been discussed by the IEEE.

Whether you want to acknowledge the sameness of the USA government to the Chinese government in these areas or not, the Chinese government is only following in the well trod footsteps of the USA government.

The USA as a whole had a foundation that was extraordinary, but this foundation has been well and truly eroded in the last couple of centuries. What's the applicable phrase? Oh yes - "Oh how far it has fallen and knows it not."