I don't know what it does mean about steal? Blockchain tech doesn't really matter if its being adopted neither on first world or 3rd developing countries.
The thing we are seeing now is that countries do have different jurisdiction or views towards crypto so decisions would really vary.
Perhaps want he mean is that they can take advantage of this technology hence it is a "steal" to those countries. But it is a case to case basis, maybe those developing countries are really looking for anything that will help their economy prosper, thus they support crypto to give their people more options to economic freedom.