[BikerJoe]

I work in this business. They sign on with USA companies, ignore copyrights, ignore patents, copy everything they can get their hands on, break contracts and go off on their own with our technology. Anyone thinking this good for the long term is dreaming. I’ve been saying the same thing since the 1970’s. Nobody appears to be listening, especially those nimrod MBA’s and accountants who worship the quarterly bottom line and don’t look to the future five or more years down the road.

Amen. As a former Westinghouse employee and with a friend who is Chief Engineer at Curtiss-Wright in Pittsburgh, I can safely say I warned everyone who would listen (and a lot who wouldn't) that long-term, dealing with the Chicoms will result in getting their butts handed to them.

[The Working Man]

The somewhat ‘funny’ thing is this... All anyone who ever thought of doing business with China, (either one, Peoples Republic or just Republic), had to do is walk through the open air markets of Taipei or Beijing and look at the goods for sale.

It’s all right there in plain view that, Intellectual Property, either copyrights or patents are just a vague guideline and that is is not only permissible to steal them but very profitable too. But noooo... these guys, (foreign devil businessmen), are too smart, they ‘know’ that when dealing with the upper levels of Chinese society that theft of IP is ‘just not done’.

And they just become another sheared sheep, slaughtered cow, etc. and that the next ‘too smart’ businessman will ignore their warnings to him and the cycle will continue.