Wonder if this is the same thing we been talking about? hmmm

"Countering accusations that China's high-speed rail technologies are knock-offs, the head of China's Intellectual Property Administrationsaid in a conference (Google translate; the original is here) that "We bought technologies from German, Japan, France, and Canada. We paid up. It is perfectly legal. We then innovate on top of them like most other inventions in the world. Why is that pirating?" He cited China's ability, the world's first, to build high speed in (high) mountain area as an example of the additional innovations."
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