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This rhetoric is becoming more and more false with time... https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/16/china-intellectual-property-theft-progress/ https://foreignpoli

• godelski 6y ago
  Your source seems to support the gp's argument. It was written just under a year ago and is talking about a deal not struck. > According to some reports, Chinese IP theft has cost the United States $225 billion to $600 billion a year. No wonder, then, that getting China to better protect IP is a point of rare consensus among both the White House and the Democratic leadership. This isn't a small chunk of change. In fact, this is comparable to the R&D budgets the main article is talking about. It then says > But history tells us to be cautious; Washington’s demands are unrealistic. Countries do not enact strong IP rights systems until their ability to innovate at home displaces reliance on outside knowledge. The United States’ own century long drift toward strong protections is a case in point. Which the tldr is: don't expect it to work. So I'm not sure why this becomes less true over time, as this is very recent and doesn't seem to have changed anything. Sure, other countries did it too, but why does that matter? Doesn't make it right.
  • justicezyx 6y ago
    The subtitle literally writes: The country is making the transition from net importer of ideas to net innovator, and as it does, it is finding that good patent laws matter.