Posted on 06/03/2005 10:16:32 AM PDT by kahoutek
BEIJING -- U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez took a hard stance on China's rampant counterfeiting of American products as he kicked off his first official trip to China yesterday. "Intellectual property rights are not up for negotiation, and frankly, abuse of intellectual property rights is not acceptable," he told businessmen, adding that China's rampant counterfeiting of American products was the top trade problem. "Intellectual property rights violations are a crime, and we don't believe we should be negotiating crimes with our trading partners."
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Big talk. What's he gonna do about it?
What can the Chinese government do about it? The whole country is out of control. Every time they look, they find more corruption at every level.
As Clintoon taught, we are no longer a nation of laws, therefore why should the rest of the world follow them [laws]?
Anyone considering buying an AMD XP3200+ processor would best be served to stay away from any OEM version of that processor, most of them we've been seeing at the AMD forums are remarked ones from HongKong and Taiwan....
The Retail versions are fine...
"What can the Chinese government do about it? The whole country is out of control. Every time they look, they find more corruption at every level."
That's because the entire Chinese system is inherently and systemically corrupt.
As opposed to here, where we're just individually corrupt.
That's the difference between capitalism and communism. ;)
No Party is going to risk tanking the economy by taking on the Chinese.
Dunno if you remember the arrongance of the Japanese during the 80's.............it took a little time to sort it out, but eventually, the market took care of it. Back then no one would have guessed that the Japanese would be outsourcing, but they are.
Seems to me what Gutierrez is telling them is if they don't get control of this, there eventually will be undesirable results.
Markets have a way of straightening problems out.
Let's face it, this is not your father's country any longer and it isn't how you make your money, its just take the money and run. The rest of the world is simply taking advantage of our obvious confusion over the defintion of is.
Patents? We don need no steeking patents.
If China had Japan's military, I wouldn't worry about it. If.
Wow, talk about clueless, this guy must have just gotten off the boat. He seems to know nothing about the Chinese. If we are going to have "free" trade with China, we are going to have to become more like them because they are not going to become more like us anytime soon.
That means that we will probably have to throw overboard the concept of publicly accessible intellectual "property." Look at it as just one of the benefits of "free" trade.
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