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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
Evidence? Specifically that a.) 'creativity' is almost non-existent in China and b.) that this is due to lack of 'real patent- and copyright protection.'
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Now this I can make real easy for you. Name 5 innovative products DESIGNED in China by Chinese? You might name Hanlin 920, but for that one the innovation took place overseas, at E-Ink in Taiwan, not in China. I have been to China hundreds of times, can speak and read Chinese and even I cannot come up with five examples.
Chinese products have a long history of a being a race to the low end of the price range. Take a walk through Chinese malls, except for the expensive imported items all the local stuff is just "me-too". There is no innovation (even hardly any new design for garments or shoes), and why should anyone go through the trouble and expense of developing something when, as soon as the goods hit the store, the first copy products appear? Companies like Adidas have seen copies of their designs hit the stores before they themselves did (local companies paid Adidas employees to smuggle out the designs during development).
No copyright and no patent protection sort of does make sense for dirt poor countries. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan all started out this way. But they reach the point --- like China does now, when they need to upgrade, when they need to promote innovation, because they cannot just compete on price anymore as costs are too high. But for even half developed countries without these protections there is only a race to produce at the lowest price, at the expense of jobs in developed countries, of course. When making dirt cheap products, who can afford to pay good wages? How can you create any value beyond production cost without them?