So you want European companies to keep being nice and "open", do all the research and invent new technologies and products for the chinese to copy and sell cheap clones of!
It's what the chinese have been saying for decades. More to make themselves feel better than anything else, yet Europe, Japan, or the US are constantly fighting with their infinite spies, and even though they are more than capable to 'outclass' everyone as you say, for whatever reason they never do. Even local Japanese strawberry farms are having issues with chinese spies for decades now (source: widely known, and personal experience).
They don't out-innovate anyone, they copy and use infinite slave labour to flood the market with cheap inferior products. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous.