I'm sure you are right but I feel this is actually beneficial.
The interests that have captured China are likely different from the ones in the US, and much different from the inferior oligarchs that have captured my home country (Canada). I see their national interests having an unintended consequence; the creation of markets of scale for products that are not politically viable here.
We all know the stories of oil companies buying the rights to battery technologies and sitting on them. There is even a Wikipedia article about it [1] that I'll link to below. China is never going to have enough oil to export, and as such, Oil will always be a cost center for them.
Copyright maximalism and intellectual "property" is strangling all of us, and I don't want it to put us in an early grave as a race. I'm grateful that China is "stealing" this "property" and turning it into batteries, solar panels and other products that I can buy, and that it iterates on them rapidly - rather than being put in a box.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_au...
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