Lead Balloon:
The English, French and Americans respect, protect and enforce our intellectual property rights and law of the sea rights, as does Australia theirs. The Chinese don’t. One of the reasons ‘the West’ has concerns about entering free trade agreements with China is that China does not respect intellectual property laws. All those Chinese student pilots in Australia will take back a copy of every piece of training material they can get their hands on. Slowly but steadily all those Australian flying training organisations will be replicated, to a lesser or greater extent, in China. They won’t get it anywhere near right the first time, but they are in it for the long game.
Bull****. Everyone who can steals Intellectual Property ALL THE TIME. I’ve watched them do it. Furthermore, even the Chinese will cease and desist if caught red handed and a big enough fuss is made. The Israelis are just as bad as the Chinese and Americans.