Stealing, Sharing

IT HAS BECOME quite fashionable in America in recent years to complain about and express anger at China's allegedly stealing American technology and research secrets, and art, and lord knows what else. China steadfastly denies all wrong doing, of course, but the evidence is convincing. has the United States, or anyone in these United States ever considered the possibility that the Chinese will inevitably possess whatever they want badly enough to possess, and that it therefore might be feasible for the U.S. to design a means, a system, to distribute its intellectual property fairly and equitable among nations? The system would doubtless include both giving and selling, and in some sensible format. Precisely how long do people, especially Americans, actually believe they can hang onto to and retain control of intellectual property, such as information, designs, or works of art, without the rest of the world sharing it and benefiting from it? The problem with constantly accusing China of stealing, no matter how well founded such accusations are, is that it makes it easier to accuse China of deliberately using the Covid virus as a weapon, of deliberately designing it in their laboratories, and releasing it into the United States. That notion, of course, is pure rubbish, having been discredited by scientists based on the structure of the virus. Sometimes it seems as if the United Stats would rather complainng about intellectual property theft than actually do something about it.