

Copying is not theft. “Copyright” is actually a privilege, a copy monopoly. Its original length of 10 years was a reasonable compromise between the right to freely share culture and the desire for artists to be able to live off of the incomes of their work. The current “70 years after creator’s death” is absurd and oppressive.
The real problem is that AI companies copyright/monopolize the things they copied.

On the one hand, I agree that China is being hypocritical. On the other hand, all businesses within a country should be owned by people who actually live and spend their lives in that country. It is one of many steps that can be taken to democratize an economy.