content: Is Samsung the victim of economic warfare? Is China the beneficiary? There has been some speculation that points to Chinese beneficiaries because of the Samsung fires.  For years China has been overtaking Samsung's and Apple's phones with both Xiaomi, Huawei, and ZTE taking aim at Western companies and technologies through industrial espionage, undercutting the market with lower quality phones, and carbon copy cloned phones.  Based on timelines of the fire events, a Chinese phone company delayed the release of their clone of the Samsung phone just prior to the news coming out about the fires.  After the fire event and the recall of the Samsung phones, they introduced their clone of the just recalled phone.  Because of the timing, where is the evidence that Samsung is the victim of sabotage or any type of industrial espionage?  Is it possible that they are poisoning the supply chain to replace the batteries with their own (Chinese company gets the contract for the batteries recalled) and to overtake the market with their own clones?