What a sad fucking world.
I like what China does in the regard to patents. That is exactly what patents deserve.
...steal them from the Americans?
You can't "steal" what wasn't valid property to begin with - even if the law likes to pretend it is valid property.
What defines what is and is not "valid" property? The entire concept of property itself only exists because it's a useful fiction. Prehistoric hunter gatherer societies might have had a loose sense of clan ownership over e.g. hunting grounds but the idea that you could parcel up an acre of land and own it would likely have seemed bizarre. Yet today some people spend their entire waking lives tracking who owns what properties