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Is it really theft when an American company sends over the CAD files to a Chinese manufacturer to make it for them?

I know there's some about of corporate espionage where trade secrets got exfilled, but what makes you so certain the majority of Chinese success is from stolen IP, as if electrical engineering grad students can't figure out how to make solar panels from first principals?



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