China is an Economic Predator. China needs Americans to buy their stuff. Without America as a customer a lot of Chinese will have nothing to do. China is a totalitarian dictatorship run by Communists. No one is free to do anything. Permission is needed to do anything unless it’s compulsory. It’s a rather horrid place and the rest of the world needs to step up and get the Chinese communist to stop cheating everybody else. The Trump Adminstration wrote “How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World” which explains the economic war by China against the world. It’s crammed full of facts that make the case that China is cheating. 
Table One: Vectors of China’s Economic Aggression in the Technology and IP Space
1.Physical Theft and Cyber-Enabled Theft of Technologies and IP
Physical Theft of Technologies and IP Through Economic Espionage
Cyber-Enabled Espionage andTheft
Evasion ofU.S. Export Control Laws Counterfeiting and Piracy
Reverse Engineering
2.Coercive and Intrusive Regulatory Gambits Foreign Ownership Restrictions
Adverse Administrative Approvals and Licensing Requirements
Discriminatory Patent and Other IP Rights Restrictions
Security Reviews Force Technology and IP Transfers
Secure and Controllable Technology Standards Data Localization Mandates
Burdensome and Intrusive Testing Discriminatory Catalogues and Lists Government Procurement Restrictions
Indigenous Technology Standards That Deviate From International Norms
Forced Research and Development Antimonopoly Law Extortion
Expert Review Panels Force Disclosure of Proprietary Information
Chinese Communist Party Co-opts Corporate Governance
Placement of Chinese Employees with Foreign Joint Ventures
3.Economic Coercion
Export Restraints Restrict Access to Raw Materials
Monopsony Purchasing Power
4.Information Harvesting
Open Source Collection of Science and Technology Information
Chinese Nationals in U.S. as Non-Traditional Information Collectors
Recruitment of Science, Technology, Business, and Finance Talent
5.State-Sponsored, Technology-Seeking Investment
Chinese State Actors Involved in Technology-Seeking FDI
Chinese Investment Vehicles Used to Acquire and Transfer U.S. Technologies and IP
Mergers andAcquisitions
Greenfield Investments
Seed and Venture Funding. That’s a lot of cheating.
The so called Sino – US relationship is an arms length one because of the vast difference between America and China which is over the idea that either the people or the state is sovereign. Chinese have no rights. That’s what a totalitarian culture is at rock bottom. Chinese exist is a state of permission from the Communist Party which rules China. Taiwan is different. It’s a democracy and the people have Rights.