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China Hacked Norway's Visma To Steal Client Secrets, Investigators Say (reuters.com)
A prolific espionage group, which the U.S. government believes is Chinese, compromised billion-dollar business service provider Visma in 2018, according to a report by Recorded Future, a threat intelligence firm. From a report: The attack was part of what Western countries said in December is a global hacking campaign by China's Ministry of State Security to steal intellectual property and corporate secrets, according to Recorded Future. China's Ministry of State Security has no publicly available contacts. The foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment, but Beijing has repeatedly denied any involvement in cyber-enabled spying. Visma took the decision to talk publicly about the breach to raise industry awareness about the hacking campaign, which is known as Cloudhopper and targets technology service and software providers in order reach their clients. Cyber security firms and Western governments have warned about Cloudhopper several times since 2017 but have not disclosed the identities of the companies affected.
There isn't much conformity in the West on anything, and in the West hierarchy is one based mostly on competence. Unlike China, where hierarchy is mostly based on seniority and connections.
The West can innovate because the best and brightest raise to the top. China can't innovate because the most connected and people who put in most time-in raise to the top.
It is not obvious to me that "after developing industry and copying technology" the next step is inevitable progression to original solutions.
Do you have any evidence of anything being developed in-house in China that isn't copied? Even military technology is copied from the West, like laughable attempts to reverse-engineer stealth technology, that failed even after purchasing US wrecks from Pakistan for hundreds of millions.