> The linked wikipedia article specifically talks about China struggling to enforce Chinese law. Here's a quote:
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> Despite making efforts in intellectual property protection in China, a major obstacle in prosecution is corruption in courts; local protectionism and political influence prohibits effective enforcement of intellectual property laws. To help overcome local corruption, China established specialized IP courts and sharply increased financial penalties.
That doesn't sound like struggling to me.
https://www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/pdf/201...
Compare with the growth in cases in the US:
https://www.uscourts.gov/data-news/judiciary-news/2020/02/13...
Why is it China increasing cases is evidence of struggling to you? Do you think the US is also struggling? What exactly are you talking about?
> You can't use 100-400 years ago as the counterexample to what happens today.
The US joined the Berne convention in 1988. I do not think we are talking about 400 years ago, but we're talking about the majority of the US history, having law that it was okay to ignore copyrights of the rest of the world.
> It's like justifying Russian invasion of Ukraine with colonists invading Native American territories
I don't agree: One can also mean that there is no justification for the invasion of the Ukraine just like there was no justification for invading American territories.