Care to explain to us unknowing westerners how you square your "We in the West cannot fully understand many of the ways of the East regarding tradition, the honor of one's word, the respect for elders, both in the home and in business, and the cooperation that comes from united purpose" comment with the innumerable cases of patent infringement from China.
From industryweek last year: "At FBI headquarters in July, the head of FBI counterintelligence, Randall Coleman, said there has been a 53% increase in the theft of American trade secrets, thefts that have cost hundreds of billions of dollars in the past year. In an FBI survey of 165 private companies, half of them said they were victims of economic espionage or theft of trade secrets — 95% of those cases involved individuals associated with the Chinese government."
