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Except that is NOT what happens. Take the case of a large Chinese network company that now competes with Cisco. This company stole intellectual property from Cisco via a corrupt Indian software engineer. This code formed the basis for a company, funded by the communist government, that is now quite large and succesful. This is not a case of innovation but, rather, Industrial Espionage.

The problem US companies have to worry about (and by extension US workers) is not a hyper-innovative third would. We have to worry about unfair competition from places like India and China. Dear Professor, would you kindly address that in your next "research" paper?