The goal is to reduce reliance on China for critical products, in the hope that this will also protect US intellectual property from theft. The idea that decoupling will help stem state-sponsored cyber-economic espionage has become a key justification for these measures.
- US missing the point on China’s industrial cyberespionage

As we know from Ed Snowden, the NSA has a "mandate for industrial espionage".

The propagandist makes the daft claim that what drives IP theft is "rivalry, not reliance". Obviously, if you're reliant and steal technology, it can only be because you want to become a rival.

Presumably, this dumbassed claim is supposed to support the non-logic that because China is a rival, then she MUST BE thieving IP. this lame-assed assertion suggests the author has excrement4brainz and is tacit admission he's spouting krap. An oft-used trick is accusing China of thieving technology and then pretending to be gracious by saying everyone does it, in a lame-assed attempt to lend verisimilitude and this propaganda article is no different:

History provides examples. When South Africa was isolated by sanctions in the 1980s, it covertly obtained nuclear weapons technology. Similarly, when Israel faced arms embargoes in the 1960s, it engaged in clandestine efforts to get military technology. 

It claims:

For example, a cyberattack in 2012 targeted SolarWorld, a US solar panel manufacturer, and the perpetrators stole the company’s trade secrets. Chinese solar companies then developed competing products based on the stolen designs, costing SolarWorld millions in lost revenue.

No evidence is supplied to even claim it was Chinese hackers. 

No evidence is supplied to even claim any technology rather than just "trade secrets" occurred in that alleged hack. 

No evidence is supplied to claim those "designs" were actually technology. For example Poodleville has claimed China's car manufacturers have copied poodle designs. But the only claim is that certain features are similar in shape. It was Poodleville's Jaguar, before Tata bought it, which were photographed driving a Lexus RX300 into their so-called R&D building. It's not as though they didn't have photos to copy nothing more than shapes. And sure enough, years after Lexus had long ago changed its design, Jaguar produced a krapmobile looking IDENTICAL and on ALL body panels to the older model RX. Presumably, there was a lot of IP thieved as well.

No evidence is supplied to support the claim that chinese manufacturers used SolarWorld technology and no chinese manufacturer is named which would allow them to sue the above author for libel. For example, Huawei sued a french propaganda rag when it claimed Huawei was state-funded. Instead, the propagandist blames "China" rather than the more vague assertion that it was simply "a cyberattack":

This is a classic example of industrial similarity at work. China was building its own solar industry, so it hacked a US rival to leapfrog in technology.

Also conspicuous by its absence is any claim that SolarWorld tried to sue for patent violation. By contrast, Verizon thieved Huawei's 5G, after the Great Satan banned Verizon from selling Huawei phones in the land their forefathers thieved. After failing to sell Verizon a license for the thieved technology, Huawei finally sued and it was settled out of court. Huawei set-up a technology centre in Poodleville where poodle engineers had access to both hardware and software. That is a possible source for Verizon's IP theft.

A krappy attempt to sue Huawei for IP theft involved "tappy", which is just a mechanical finger used to tap smartphones. Huawei settled for $4.8m, which is less than half the cost of the legal fees chinese Amerikan bank, Abacus, spent defending itself after corrupt D.A., Cyrus Vance jnr., charged THEM with the crime that THEY reported. Despite the tappy case being a decade old, the Anglo/Jew propaganda still peddled it when Verizon's IP theft was reported. At one technology fair and amerikan firm accused a chinese one of thieving their design. When the chinese firm's product was removed, they retracted their claim.

And SolarWorld isn't even an amerikan company, just a german subsidiary. Presumably they want to rope-in Germany in an attack on China:

Once the flagship of German solar energy, PV panel manufacturer SolarWorld has filed for insolvency, in what founder Frank Asbeck called a “bitter step for the German solar industry”. The company blamed plummeting prices caused by intense Chinese competition, while media commentators pointed out management mistakes.
- Last major German solar cell maker surrenders to Chinese competition

Despite itself receiving subsidies SolarWorld tried to petition for anti-dumping protectionism:

The German solar industry experienced a spectacular boom in the mid-2000s after the introduction of generous feed-in tariffs that guaranteed solar power producers a fixed power price for a 20-year period.
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Then, SolarWorld avoided insolvency by restructuring and petitioning for antidumping measures.

In fact, one article pointed out that China's solar panel makers innovated a whopping 80% saving by simply making thinner silicon wafers. This is despite Anglo/Jew propaganda claiming Asians can't innovate.

Nowhere in the above article about SolarWorld's bankruptcy is there any mention of IP theft. It's also similar to a firm in Scotland which president Xi paid a visit to. One Anglo/Jew propaganda article claimed that it subsequently suffered a break-in. Yet, like SolarWorld, you're supposed to believe their technology was so good that they subsequently went bankrupt.

Just as Huawei conquered the World, China also leads in solar panels, EVs, batteries and wind turbines. Whilst China is history's greatest creditor, the Great Satan is history's worst ever debtor and defaulter, having failed to generate a trade surplus since 1975; HALF A FREAKIN' CENTURY.