It is really strange to see that, when a US company or one goverment department doing something, we call it by its name or its branch, but when a Chinese company or a department doing something affect copyright or anything wrong (there's no exuse for that I know) but we summerise it as "China". I am working in a Chinese company right now, this mentality really affects some good Chinese company out there to do some fair business.
That's because the Chinese government has its thumbs in every pie in their country. If the government wanted, they could easily compel your company to do its bidding.
Well, that's exactly the same how the Chinese people think about America --- if America wants, they can take away millions of citizens life from a previously rich middle east country with ease. And I dislike this idea and the way of generalization.
Exactly, the seemingly good independent Chinese companies are simply the ones that haven't caught the attention of the thousand eyed spider. The company is in the web regardless.
The only way the US has influence over business is via the judicial system. If a business takes issue with the outcome of the court cases they can even take the extreme step of shutting their business down as was done with Lavabit.
The Chinese government has routinely stooped to using coercion such as blackmail and kidnapping of family members to control its citizens. It's really not comparable.
