Because it’s cheaper to steal than to do the research for yourself.
Not when you have Slick Willie as your front man. It doesn’t cost anything then.
Why don’t the chinese have some recent legal chinese immigrants start a farm in iowa, then after farming for a few year order a bit more seed corn than they need and then leave out a few bags for their agents to pick up, that way they can crontrol WHAT seeds they are stealing and they can do it under the radar...
Maybe I should start a consultancy firm for espionage, becasue they seem to be doing it wrong....
Because it’s cheaper to steal than to do the research for yourself.
The downside to stealing technology is that you really don’t have an idea at at the basic level of what the item you have stolen does or the negatives to the technology is.
Such as: Hey I have stolen this neat super conducting Battery! Let’s back engineer it and then make more of them to sell cheaply! Negative impact is the production process will render the workers sterile as well as several thousand hectares of formerly productive land. (Hypothetical case)