There is nothing wrong in trying to do what chinese are doing. If anything they are busy doing the same from American companies to ran forward.

" Its leaders want the country to become a first-tier economic and industrial power in a single generation, and they are prepared to steal the knowledge they need to do it,"

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance_the_terrifying_deals_between_silicon_valley_and_the_security_state/