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China is most likely stealing Russian intellectual property in order to sell copycat weapons systems for a lower price at some point in the future, US National Security Advisor John said in Washington, DC on Wednesday, Sputnik reports.

"Russia sells advanced weapons systems and at least so far, China buys advanced weapons systems although I have complete confidence that they’re doing to the Russians the same thing they do to many American products and businesses – they’re stealing their intellectual property, they’re copying it, they’re duplicating it and pretty soon they’ll sell the same weapons systems at prices lower than the Russians sell them," Bolton said at an Alexander Hamilton Society event.

Intellectual property is one of the key points of conflict which has caused the current trade war between the United States and China. In April, the US Trade Representative put China on its Priority Watch List in 2018 due to intellectual property concerns, including theft of trade secrets, online piracy and counterfeiting.