This is the way it was always done. The French paid English Gentlemen and nobility during industrialisation. Prussia had state sanctioned industry espionage. MR. Siemens himself went undercover as nobility to get information on machines.

Now you're just being racist. They're learning from other technology and then innovating it further, not just copying.

And if you don't think the other countries you listed aren't doing the same thing, you aren't thinking about this seriously.