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[–] andrew_bidlaw 3 points 6 months ago

Because they produce it anyway for various companies and then have their specific product lines, equipment, everything they aren't ordered to destroy and can reuse? Because IP laws are in a weird place there and many international relations are decided by the party, that have local production interests' in mind? Because they are actually good at R&D but as an economy oriented towards global market they choose to play safe and instead produce X but cheaper, dumping the price, as most of us won't buy anything original coming from there with that rep you yourself state?

Forgotten Weapons channel (that has a dedicated c/ommunity on Lemmy) reviewed a couple of their old brandless Type-something guns and the thing with them wasn't that they were blindly copying soviet guns, but tested and mixed components and ideas from different ones to achieve their goals, with one of them being standartization, and using the factories that are already running with small correction to their work rather than starting from the scratch. They adapt what works and produce it in bazillions of units.

I'm not a China fanboy and dislike their regime, but there couldn't have been a strong chinese economy without western companies chasing after cheap labor there. This golem was on clay feet before, but after a while it gained some independence. Not many companies who entered there balls deep can pull it off without a significant loss.

I know nothing of Chinese, but there should be a common name for their vagina dentata politics that make even pronounced enemies been dependant on them.