The Chinese, like the Japanese before them, have insisted on licensing agreements and large-scale transfer of technology as the price to agreeing to accept imports. But the Chinese have taken this process one step further by ______________________________________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


producing pirate versions of American products

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