A Chinese professor recently bragged in front of a mainland Chinese audience that China had successfully “copied its way to the world’s front row,” which has emboldened the regime to take a more aggressive line towards the United States. For the past 40 years, the Chinese regime only did one thing: plagiarize, Zang Qichao, a prominent marketing expert and visiting professor of Beijing’s Tsinghua University, told a group of Chinese entrepreneurs recently. “We plagiarized wildly, copied wildly,” Zang said. “What intellectual property rights? What patented technology? We’ll get it first and deal with it later.” Through this approach, China has skyrocketed to become one of the world’s leading economies, and now finds that there’s nothing left to replicate, Zang said. Inflated by its achievements replicating foreign technology, the Chinese regime is now emboldened to be tougher against the United States, Zang said, as demonstrated by the public tongue-lashing dished out …