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You're comparing apples and oranges. When has the US government stolen trade secrets from foreign companies and then bootstrapped new domestic companies to comp
by merpnderp 8y ago
You're comparing apples and oranges. When has the US government stolen trade secrets from foreign companies and then bootstrapped new domestic companies to compete against them?
China has surely done all the things you're accusing the US of, but they aren't being punished for that.
- pjc50 8y agohttp://money.cnn.com/2015/04/30/news/airbus-germany-nsa-spying/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/30/news/airbus-germany-nsa-spyi... (I'm not sure anything has been proven definitively in the open, but I'm not sure that applies to all these China allegations either)
- merpnderp 8y agoSo you would have had a problem with the EU retaliating if they’d felt they had enough proof for a case?
- tomarr 8y agoThe US actually did this extensively during its own industrialisation, stealing IP from Britain and shielding its own fledgling domestic industries (textiles was the tech sector of the day). Britain took steps as extensive as banning skilled people from travelling to the USA. All this is just historic and doesn't necessarily feed into what should be done in the present situation, but it is useful to note that this is a common path that developed countries have followed in the past: - ignore/steal IP - protect and subsidise domestic equivalents - upon domestic industry being competitive, reciprocally lower tariffs - once fully developed, lobby for free trade and strong IP protection