Why are the Chinese so good at copying?
为什么中国人如此擅长抄袭?
Thomas Edward, Geopolitic & Tech, Research in US, China, India & Asia.
托马斯·爱德华，《地缘政治与技术》，《美国、中国、印度与亚洲研究》。
"Copying" is deep in Chinese DNA & culture. They even has a proverb for it: "Seeing a better, one should seek to parallel".见贤思齐。
"复制"在中国的DNA和文化中根深蒂固。他们甚至有一个谚语:"看到一个更好的,一个人应该寻求与其并行"。见贤思齐。
In ancient time, there wasn't any copyright law. Everyone just learn and copy freely from the better one to improve. Its not until the West capitalism rise to top from its industrialization just few centuries ago, West invented patent system to ensure their leading advantage.
在古代，没有任何版权法。每个人都可以从更好的人那里自由地学习和复制来提高自己。直到几个世纪前西方资本主义从工业化中崛起，西方才发明了专利制度来确保他们的领先优势。
But who invented most of the things prior to West civilization? Science and Civilisation in China
但在西方文明之前，是谁发明了大部分东西呢?中国的科学与文明
But did China learn from any other high civilization? Sure, tonnes of it from ancient Bharat-India continent, Persian, Roman, Egypt, etc. But no one pay royalty or get sued to learn from better ones, just universal knowledge exchange to improve life.
但是中国有没有向其他高等文明学习呢?当然，来自古巴拉-印度大陆、波斯、罗马、埃及等等。但是，没有人为了向更好的人学习而支付专利使用费或被起诉，只有普遍的知识交流来改善生活。
So Europe developed by copying everything from Chinese Inventions first, then US copied Europe (by espionage), Japan copied US-EU, Korea copied US-EU-Jp. How a little bit of Industrial Espionage started the Industrial Revolution |
所以欧洲的发展首先是模仿中国的发明，然后美国(通过间谍活动)模仿欧洲，日本模仿美国-欧盟，韩国模仿美国-欧盟- 日本。 链接：《一点点工业间谍活动是如何引发工业革命的》
But Jp & SK were largely spared from violating IP accusation because of US policy to groom them as counterweight to Soviet-China. They were in fact given many technologies & freedom to copy intentionally to develop its "miracle" prosperity as show case of West democracy superiority. Now US is also grooming West democracy India to counter commie China, so you won't hear a single complaint of India IP violation when its ranked global bottom violating everything. Ranking of Countries for Intellectual Property Protection
但由于美国将日本和韩国培养成与苏中抗衡的力量，它们基本上没有受到侵犯知识产权的指控。事实上，他们获得了许多技术和自由，可以故意复制，以发展其"奇迹"繁荣，作为西方民主优越性的例证。现在美国也在培养西方民主印度来对抗共产主义中国，所以当印度在全球排名垫底时，你不会听到任何关于印度侵犯知识产权的抱怨。链接：知识产权保护国家排名
China after missing its few centuries of development during Manchus occupation(Qing Dynasty) , followed by a series of devastating invasions & civil war, finally could find 40yrs of peace time to develop again under visionary leader Mr. Deng XP.
中国在经历了满清时期几百年的发展后，经历了一系列毁灭性的侵略和内战，终于在有远见的领导人邓先生的领导下，找到了40年的和平时期来重新发展。
Chinese is as usual very good at copying everyone to quickly improve their life again, alleviating 700M from poverty within 40yrs. By next year 2020, they will alleviate all severe poverty to ensure every Chinese is guaranteed (by state law) a decent job, shelter, food & basic healthcare, while every West nations are having over 20% poverty no one want to talk about.
像往常一样，中国人非常擅长模仿别人，以迅速再次改善自己的生活，在40年内使7亿人脱贫。到2020年，他们将消除所有严重的贫困，确保每个中国人都有(国家法律)保障体面的工作、住房、食物和基本医疗，而每个西方国家都有超过20%的贫困，没有人愿意谈论。
Over last 40yrs, US has mutated its IP copyright system to become a powerful tool where big US corps with vast legal resources will patent every single shits to suppress & extort any weaker corps/nation through complex IP system & costly lengthy law suits, backed by US sanction power. Intellectual property, not monopoly
在过去的40年里，美国已经改变了它的知识产权体系，成为一个强大的工具，在美国制裁力量的支持下，拥有大量法律资源的大型美国公司将通过复杂的知识产权体系和昂贵的漫长法律诉讼，为每一个弱小的公司/国家申请专利。知识产权，而不是垄断
Did Edison invented the light bulb? No.
爱迪生发明灯泡了吗?不。
Lot of small corps & poor nations growth were strangled with costly products(like MS Office), high royalty fees & law suits, while their indigenous innovations often get violated or worst patented. Japan even try to patent my favorite Indian curry.
许多小公司和贫穷国家的增长被昂贵的产品(如微软Office)、高昂的专利费和诉讼所扼杀，而它们的自主创新往往受到侵犯或获得最糟糕的专利。日本甚至想给我最喜欢的印度咖喱申请专利。
Since US alleged China is stealing all its IP, did millions of China corps get sued in US & globally, or brought to WTO? No. Because China actually paid $30B global royalty p.a., right behind US paying $40B. So how can China be biggest IP thieves as US alleged?
既然美国指控中国窃取其所有的知识产权，那么数百万中国公司是在美国和全球被起诉，还是被带到WTO?不。因为中国实际上每年支付300亿美元的全球专利费。仅排在我们支付400亿美元之后。那么，中国怎么能像美国所说的那样，成为最大的知识产权窃贼呢?
But why Chinese is paying that much willingly, huge $30B p.a.? Because no one can sell any product globally violating any IP, and you will be paying huge fines. That has largely answered if US propaganda hold any water.
但为什么中国人愿意付出这么多，每年300亿美元。因为没有人可以在全球范围内销售任何违反知识产权的产品，而你将支付巨额罚款。如果美国的宣传站得住脚的话，这在很大程度上已经得到了回答。
A Closer Look at China's Supposed Misappropriation of U.S. Intellectual Property
让我们仔细看看中国对美国知识产权的侵吞
US even patented e-Cigarette widely known to be invented by a Chinese who has no resource to patent it. The world also openly violated a small Singapore company Trek2000 USB flash storage (Thumbdrive) because it can't fight every big Corps.
美国甚至拥有电子烟专利，众所周知，这是一个没有资源申请专利的中国人发明的。世界还公开侵犯了新加坡一家小公司Trek2000的USB闪存(拇指驱动器)，因为它无力抗衡众多的大集团。
When West invited China to tender a FSR project, they didn't had any intention to offer it any project. They just patented its proposal containing IP to Chinese dismay. That's how capitalism predatory policy work, rich get richer.
当西方邀请中国投标一个FSR项目时，他们并没有打算提供任何项目。他们刚刚为包含知识产权的提案申请了专利，这让中国人感到沮丧。这就是资本主义掠夺性政策的运作方式，富人越富。
Patent filing is a very lucrative business yet expensive game not for small innovative companies or poor nations. So Japan & Korea copy US & EU, jumped in to spend huge resources in patenting every shit instead of investing on innovation. They become top 3 patent holders soon, with Samsung rank No.1 in application. Everyone sued each other to get even.
专利申请是一项非常有利可图的业务，但对小型创新企业或贫穷国家来说却是一项昂贵的游戏。所以日本和韩国效仿美国和欧盟，投入大量资源为每一件垃圾申请专利，而不是投资于创新。他们很快就成为了世界前3大专利持有者，其中三星的专利申请量排名第一。为了报复，每个人都互相起诉。
China realized its late comer disadvantage after joining WTO, every tiny basic technology, design, pattern, name, & logo are already patented by G7 to claim royalty, you can't create much new thing without violating one. And you have to very diligently verify if your design violate any of their numerous complex patents to avoid costly law suits. This system was designed to kill any innovation for late comer like China & Asia.
加入WTO后，中国意识到自己的后发劣势，每一项微小的基础技术、设计、图案、名称和标志都已经被G7国家申请专利，要求专利使用费，你不可能不违反一项就创造出很多新东西。你必须非常努力地验证你的设计是否违反了他们众多复杂的专利中的任何一项，以避免昂贵的法律诉讼。这个系统的设计是为了扼杀中国和亚洲等后来者的创新。
But everyone has forgotten Chinese is naturally very good at "copying" to outperform everyone, so they started to copy US, EU & Jp predatory system on how to utilize WTO system & patent rights to fight back. The WTO and China.
但是每个人都忘记了中国人天生擅长"抄袭"，所以他们开始模仿美国、欧盟和日本的掠夺性体系，如何利用WTO体系和专利权进行反击。链接：世贸组织和中国。
China paid its due fees $30B p.a. diligently without complaining, working as world sweat shop for meagre margin($15 per $1K iPhone) over 30yrs with high pollution. It started to invest in a huge legal team to patent all its discovery as well, but plough more into R&D instead of playing financial scam like West & Jp. Within a decade, its No.1 in patents filing well surpassing US & the world. Huawei is now No1 patent applicant.
中国付出了应有的年均300亿美元的努力，没有抱怨，就像世界血汗工厂一样，30多年来，在高污染的环境下，利润微薄(每1000美元的iPhone收取15美元)。它也开始投资一个庞大的法律团队为所有的发现申请专利，但更多地投入研发，而不是像西方和日本那样玩金融骗局。在十年内，它的专利申请数量就超过了美国和世界第一。华为现在是第一大专利申请人。
In another decade when 60% technology is consist of new patents, we will see everyone get sued by Chinese for IP thief & cough up huge royalty they had paid to learn their patent lesson, eg. for 5G(China owned 35% of SEP/Standard Essential Patent), AI, automation, autonomous driving, aerospace, FSR, semiconductor, ...
再过10年，当60%的技术由新专利组成时，我们将会看到每个人都被中国人控告窃取知识产权，并为学习他们的专利经验付出巨大的专利费。关于5G(中国拥有SEP/标准基本专利的35%)、人工智能、自动化、自动驾驶、航空航天、FSR、半导体、……
What will US do then? Trumps already threaten to withdraw from WTO, and had paralyzed it by refusing to allow nomination of retired judge replacement. US is single largest violator of WTO law getting most global complaints.
那我们怎么办呢?特朗普已经威胁要退出WTO，并通过拒绝任命退休法官替代人选使WTO陷入瘫痪。美国是世界上最大的单一违反WTO法律的国家，收到的全球投诉最多。
Soon US will also revert back to its old law, where IP rights can only be sued by Americans in US to undercut China. Isn't shifting goal post and rewriting rules for US advantage is its forte?
不久，美国也将回归其旧法律，在美国，知识产权只能被美国人起诉，以削弱中国的实力。难道改变目标和改写规则不是我们的强项吗?
Again, everyone has forgotten Chinese is just very good at learning…or copying if you prefer, soon they will copy US old IP law, only Chinese can sue in China, and the world will quickly flood with Made in China "US branded goods" at half the price. This will be the apex of US hypocrisy biting back.
再说一遍，所有人都忘记了中国人只是非常擅长学习……或者如果你愿意的话，他们很快就会抄袭美国的旧知识产权法律，只有中国人可以在中国起诉，世界很快就会充斥着中国制造的"美国品牌商品"，价格只有美国的一半。这将是美国伪善反击的顶点。
Chinese has found the secret winning formula against US dictate World system after years of suffering West bullying, by simply copying the best in every fields diligently to surpass them, including English language now.
在经历了多年的西方欺凌之后，中国人找到了对抗美国主宰世界体系的制胜法宝，他们只是在各个领域勤奋模仿，努力超越美国，包括现在的英语。
They have send millions to study in West best universities, and employ million of English teachers to teach their people. Soon the world will find many millions of perfect English speaking Chinese with bilingual ability like European.
他们送了数百万人到西方最好的大学学习，雇佣了数百万英语教师来教他们的人民。很快，世界上就会有数百万像欧洲人一样，能说流利英语的中国人。
These Chinese will argue their case eloquently & intelligently backed by data in perfect English everywhere to counter West smear campaign, no longer disadvantage by language. Aren't we already seeing some in quora now?
这些中国人将用完美的英语在世界各地用数据雄辩而明智地证明他们的观点，以反击西方的诽谤运动，不再在语言上处于劣势。我们不是已经在quora上看到一些了吗?
As a very good diligent student in "copying" the best, it won't be long Chinese will also set up a similar state sponsored English propaganda machine like US AP, UK Reuters, France AFP, NYT, WaPo, BBC, etc. Then the world will start get bombard 24/7 that US is the greatest IP thieves and cyper spy espionage, which indeed Snowden's Prism saga had already convinced us, but someone need to remind daily less the world forget. And the world will start accuse US McDonald stole the big Mac idea from Chinese bun.
作为一个非常勤奋的学生，在"抄袭"方面做得最好，用不了多久，中国也会建立一个类似的国家赞助的英语宣传机器，如美国的美联社、英国的路透社、法国的法新社、纽约时报、WaPo、英国广播公司等。然后，世界将开始24/7的轰炸，美国是最大的IP窃贼和黑客间谍活动，这确实是斯诺登的棱镜事件已经说服我们，但需要有人每天提醒，少让世界忘记。全世界都会开始指责我们麦当劳从中国的小圆面包上窃取了巨无霸的创意。
China can't steal what we haven't invent like 5G. Soon we will also have to pay for their best innovations we forced them to develop - every tiny thing, by putting Chinese leading companies on banned list.
中国不能窃取我们没有发明的东西，比如5G。很快，我们也将不得不为我们强迫他们开发的最好的创新买单——每一件小事，通过把中国领先企业列入黑名单。
Do you know why China is now trying very hard to convert their export economy to consumption model, which their market size already surpass US this year? I will continue the story later if more wish to know after 500 upvotes. Thanks for reading my China analysis.
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