Yep. But they won that fair and square.
If you call selling BELOW COST fair and square.
In the car business, an American named Deming taught them a management style that Detroit ignored. And of course they had brand new factories in all areas, the newest equipment, no unions or healthcare or pensions to pay. And they hired American marketing and advertising companies to make their tin cans appear to be rugged enough for the American southwest.
Newly independent working women went for their "reliable" cars so as not to break down and be raped and murdered on the side of a road. And of course they took full advantage of the OPEC oil embargo to sell their high-mileage cars. Bad paint, formless and boring to look at, but cheap and they started every morning. They only made money when they started selling luxury autos...before that it was all about market-share. Detroit could have buried them alive but didn't take them seriously.
What they did to us in electronics would be impossible today with the WTO....they cheated, lied, spied, dumped below-cost, lured our negotiators over to their side of the table, and spent millions lobbying the crooks in Congress. They took the motorcycle business fair and square...they beat the Brits and other Euro countries at that, not us. In the other areas I mentioned they had to compete fair and square and didn't do nearly as well.