China has given marching orders to its automakers to flood global markets with electric cars, but Beijing is now worried that the move could jeopardize the trade secrets of BYD and others.https://www.notebookcheck.net/BYD-may-avoid-America-s-outsourcing-mistakes-with-knock-down-kits-for-export-assembly.887857.0.html
China worried about intellectual property, that's a new one.
The US is not innovative. They used others to develop products. After 2.WW they take hundreds of Nazi scientists to the US, that's why they have NASA today. That's only one example.