Why would the U.S. complain when, beginning in the early 1990s, the U.S. literally handed over American innovation/invention, American capital investment, American jobs, etc... to China deliberately robbing American citizens and the long-term U.S. national interest to build Communist China into the strong man of Asia with the largest economy (supplanting the U.S. economy in the process) in the world.
Then, on top of that, the U.S. almost abandoned national security allowing the Chinese to simply steal whatever they didn't already have. So now that China has become the strong man of Asia, as a result, the U.S. is complaining?
Interestingly, the U.S. did the same thing with the Soviet Union in its early days. Read 'Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1930-1945' by Antony C. Sutton published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In fact, read the other two volumes as well.
As one commentator writes:
"The Soviet Union did experience rapid economic growth during the period covered. There's just one problem. The Soviet economic growth was to a large extent made in the USA! This is an often overlooked fact, certainly in Soviet propaganda or Marxist urban legend, where it usually sounds as if the Soviets did it all by themselves...
Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1930 to 1945 painstakingly documents how the Western, capitalist nations were responsible for almost *all* economic growth during the first five-year plans. The Soviets imported, copied or stole large amounts of Western technology, employed foreign engineers and workers, and even appointed foreigners to high-ranking posts within the planning bureaucracy. Most of the assistance came from the United States or Germany (before Hitler).
There were over 200 technical-assistance agreements between the Soviet Union and foreign companies during the period 1929-45. According to Soviet sources, about 6,800 foreign specialists worked in heavy industry in 1932. Of these, about 1,700 were American engineers. The number of foreign specialists at individual sites is sometimes staggering. In 1931, there were about 2000 foreign specialists in the Don coal mines, 80% of whom were Germans. More than 730 Americans worked at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant at one time or another. In 1932, there were 200 Germans at Magnitogorsk. The iron and steel works in this town were the pride of Soviet economic planning, but their construction seems to have been almost solely the work of American and German specialists. Indeed, the Magnitogorsk plant is actually a copy of the steel plant at Gary, Indiana! The Soviet Union also recruited guest workers during this period. 1,500 American miners are said to have worked at the Leninsk mines in Siberia.
Since Soviet engineers were often untrained or downright incompetent, the foreign specialists assumed most of the responsibility for the projects under construction. The Soviet agency responsible for designing all new industrial plants during the period in question, Gosproektstroi, was headed by an American, G.K. Scrymgeour from Albert Kahn Inc. Indeed, the entire agency was organized by the Kahn Company. Several other Soviet agencies responsible for construction were headed by American engineers, or employed them as "consultants". Gipromez, the bureau responsible for Soviet metallurgic industry (including Magnitogorsk) was heavily Americanized, with individual U.S. engineers heading various Gipromez departments. A certain John Calder, known as "Russia's miracle man" held official positions at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, Magnitogorsk, Lake Balkash and other important industrial sites. He was eventually awarded the Order of Lenin.
Some other salient facts: the Soviet iron and steel technology, a favoured development sector, was wholly dependent on foreign design and engineering ability. No new blast furnaces were built between 1917 and 1928. From 1928 to 1932, all Soviet blast furnaces were designed and built under American supervision to U.S. designs. From 1933 to 1938, the Soviets duplicated the technology. The turbo-blowers to the blast furnaces at Magnitogorsk and Kuzbass were built in Switzerland and Germany, and installed in Russia by Swiss and German engineers. General Electric also had its fair share of the turbo-blower business. Sutton further mentions eight complete steel mills, made in the United States, shipped to the Soviet Union in 1945 under the Lend-Lease agreement.
And it just goes on and on...."
The U.S. has a history of building their very worst enemies and it always seems like a good idea at the time to U.S. politicians and U.S. businesses. <-- That's the truth.
And now, of course, we've done it again with China. We may do it with Iran too.