China would no doubt take legal action to insist that other organizations and countries respect their intellectual property, license it, and pay royalties.
By the time all the agreements with China to respect IP are in place, China will be producing more patents annually than any other country.
theoretically yes, China has bluntly stolen western tech and appropriated it. But still the western "order" is based on such agreements, and if its upholders (the west) decides to forgo it, all hell breaks loose.
The US was a brazen pirate right up until the point when it became profitable to abide by international patent and copyright treaties. We don't like it when other countries do what we did, but I personally can't fault them.