The root of the problem lies in China's contempt for intellectual property. Most video and software consumed in China is pirated, and it is widely rumored that the People's Liberation Army runs the trade. In his new book China Airborne, Fallows calls China "a culture of copying." The idea of a global free market enriching all is not what businesspeople there are after. "Everyone is grabbing everything they can," a top Chinese professor told Fallows.