KOL460 | Rant about the “China is Stealing Our IP” Myth

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 460.

I mean the title says it all. I kept getting interrupted by calls and deliveries. Oh well, what you gonna do.

Links/Resourceshttps://youtu.be/rnDe920Ce40

China and IP “Theft”

• Lacalle on China and IP “Theft”
• All-In Podcast Concern over China and IP “Theft”
• More of the “China is Stealing Our IP” nonsense
• Tweet by Gordon Chang
• “To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense”—Chinese saying
• Libertarian and IP Answer Man: Does China have “more fierce” competition because of weaker IP law?
• Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Intellectual Property, the section “IP can’t be socialistic, since the Soviet Union didn’t recognize IP law”
• other posts under the tag China-IP-theft or IP Imperialism
• Update: Watching now. aaannnd it only took to 8 minutes in to mention China’s “intellectual property theft”. https://fedsoc.org/events/the-art-of-the-tariff-the-trump-administration-and-trade https://fedsoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0QBJNVreRxGNoHAy0-rFoA#/registration
• Trump’s Proclamation World Intellectual Property Day, 2025: Of course these geniuses just repeat the same nonsense about IP being “the same as” property and how infringing IP is “theft” of course they are insinuating China “steals American IP,” all of which are confused bullshit lies and distortions. See The China Stealing IP Myth; The Structural Unity of Real and Intellectual Property; Copying, Patent Infringement, Copyright Infringement are not “Theft”, Stealing, Piracy, Plagiarism, Knocking Off, Ripping Off

IP vs. Plagiarism

• KOL207 | Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Are Not About Plagiarism, Theft, Fraud, or Contract
• “Types of Intellectual Property”
• The Mountain of IP Legislation

General Case Against IP

• Kinsella, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023), Part IV
• Against Intellectual Property
• You Can’t Own Ideas: Essays on Intellectual Property (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023)
• Kinsella, ed., The Anti-IP Reader: Free Market Critiques of Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, 2023);
• See my post “Intellectual Properganda.” [↩]
• Stop calling patent and copyright “property”; stop calling copying “theft” and “piracy”

Related Videos/References

Matt Walsh on IP: fisked in Musk and Dorsey: “delete all IP law”:

China’s regime has signaled it will expropriate the intellectual property of foreign companies. It’s time for Prez Trump to protect American IP by using his authority to order U.S. companies to leave China. https://t.co/fa9qc1GNXc

— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) March 30, 2025

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China’s U.S. Intellectual Property Theft | CPAC | Gordon Chang:

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