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> Innovative economies generally develop strong IP protection around the same time they become innovative.

This is another way of saying "actors in less advanced economies ignore IP protections until they've more or less caught up".

That was the US IP strategy, which it now decries when others follow it. Enabled by faster international feedback loops, China is, er, innovating on the strategy, simultaneously weaponizing IP law while also expropriating through various means.



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