I believe that China's corporate espionage and technological theft is minor compared to the large scale 'handover and transfer' of semiconductor designs, manufacturing- equipment and processes by the profit hungry US semiconductor corporations under the government umbrella.

Even the lead free solder will be full of lead.

That's great, millions of standard ICs pumping out of China like every other low-level manufactured product they seem to produce. Is this the meaning of success and growth--just manufacturing stuff for other people?

By chips, I am assuming they mean general purpose semiconductors and not CPU's. For starters the last Chinese CPU I read about was 90% ripped off MIPS. Also I know China didn't sell tens of billions of dollars worth of CPUs.

What I do want to know is if they are including Taiwan or just mainland China.

I wonder if the chips are lead based?

China's corporate espionage and technological theft is firing on all cylinders.