China has clearly set a dangerous precedent in IP rights violations, having been engaging in counterfeiting, piracy, forced tech transfers, and cyberattacks for decades. If stealing IP is what it takes for certain economies to, as the article posits, “catch up to global competitors,” then the U.S. and other first world nations should take note and commit to the fight against IP theft. It would do the free world good to treat these infringements as a matter of national security going forward. Our people cannot make China and other countries with established or budding IP theft-infrastructure to continue stealing our patents, copyrights, trade secrets, tech, and innovations in general at our literal expense.
China has clearly set a dangerous precedent in IP rights violations, having been engaging in counterfeiting, piracy, forced tech transfers, and cyberattacks for decades. If stealing IP is what it takes for certain economies to, as the article posits, “catch up to global competitors,” then the U.S. and other first world nations should take note and commit to the fight against IP theft. It would do the free world good to treat these infringements as a matter of national security going forward. Our people cannot make China and other countries with established or budding IP theft-infrastructure to continue stealing our patents, copyrights, trade secrets, tech, and innovations in general at our literal expense.