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How China Systematically Pries Technology From U.S. Companies
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 26 Sept 2018 | Lingling Wei and Bob Davis

Posted on 09/26/2018 9:32:06 AM PDT by Theoria

Beijing leans on an array of levers to extract intellectual property—sometimes coercively

DuPont Co. suspected its onetime partner in China was getting hold of its prized chemical technology, and spent more than a year fighting in arbitration trying to make it stop.

Then, 20 investigators from China’s antitrust authority showed up.

For four days this past December, they fanned out through DuPont’s Shanghai offices, demanding passwords to the company’s world-wide research network, say people briefed on the raid. Investigators printed documents, seized computers and intimidated employees, accompanying some to the bathroom.

Beijing leans on an array of levers to pry technology from American companies—sometimes coercively so, say businesses and the U.S. government.

Interviews with dozens of corporate and government officials on both sides of the Pacific, and a review of regulatory and other documents, reveal how systemic and methodical Beijing’s extraction of technology has become—and how unfair Chinese officials consider the complaints.

China’s tactics, these interviews and documents show, include pressuring U.S. partners in joint ventures to relinquish technology, using local courts to invalidate American firms’ patents and licensing arrangements, dispatching antitrust and other investigators, and filling regulatory panels with experts who may pass trade secrets to Chinese competitors.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: china; communist; copyright; theft

1 posted on 09/26/2018 9:32:06 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

Why would you ever allow people in China to have passwords to your worldwide research network?


2 posted on 09/26/2018 9:34:30 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Theoria

3 posted on 09/26/2018 9:34:39 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Theoria

By getting their spies to work as chauffer for diane feinstien, by sending people to work in high tech as “contractors,” and by stealing technology every way they can.


4 posted on 09/26/2018 9:36:12 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: DannyTN

I wouldn’t even do business with or buy from the ChiComs where possible.


5 posted on 09/26/2018 9:38:10 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: I want the USA back
And getting the GOP and Dems to support most favored nation status.

1980's communism bad.

2000's communism good for business.

6 posted on 09/26/2018 9:38:26 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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I’ll say it again, their economy is based on intellectual fraud as well as old-school fraud.

If you’re a new technology business of any size in the United States, among the first non-spam, somewhat personalized unsolicited correspondence you’ll find in your mailbox will be some barely comprehensible arrangement of English words under a letterhead from an unknown Chinese company ostensibly doing business in the United States. It’s not clear what they’re saying, but it’s clear what they want — a deal to “share” your wonderful technology with them.


7 posted on 09/26/2018 9:38:35 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Theoria
Try out a Buick Envision and, closely examine window sticker. Nuff said.
8 posted on 09/26/2018 9:48:00 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Theoria
For decades the saying in Silicon Valley was "Half the Chinese here are spying on us. The other half are spying on them!"
9 posted on 09/26/2018 9:48:11 AM PDT by null and void (The big problem is that the republicans don't keep their campaign promises and the democrats do!)
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Any company doing business in China should be barred from any and all defense contract or supply work.

Tech transfers to China are mandatory in the current trade setup and have been since Clinton was POTUS.

Any defense contractor that does business in China has already given away the same tech provided to the US to China.

All those electronic geewhizzeries? All compromised.


10 posted on 09/26/2018 9:50:53 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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How much did DiFi contribute to this transfer of technology through her Chinese driver over the years?
Is anyone even interested in getting this question answered?
Does anyone dare to raise this question publicly or has the case conveniently been forgotten by the RATS?


11 posted on 09/26/2018 9:56:02 AM PDT by 353FMG
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How much did DiFi contribute to this transfer of technology through her Chinese driver over the years?
Is anyone even interested in getting this question answered?
Does anyone dare to raise this question publicly or has the case conveniently been forgotten by the RATS?


12 posted on 09/26/2018 9:56:02 AM PDT by 353FMG
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China’s trying to swing the election toward democrats too... guess crooked totalitarians are attracted to each other. Shocked...


13 posted on 09/26/2018 10:01:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (Feinstein united NeverTrumpers, independents and Trumpers- an amazing feat this close to an election)
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To: DannyTN

“Why”

Because if you don’t, they shoot you. The office from which they gained access is in Shanghai.

Lesson learned: don’t open offices in communist jurisdictions.


14 posted on 09/26/2018 11:29:18 AM PDT by fruser1
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For over two decades, I have told people that it is insane for American companies to have opreations in China. American corporations are run by idiots incapable of thinking more than 5 years in the future, if they can think past the next quarter. They’ve been installed by our stock trading firms, who only think quarterly


15 posted on 09/27/2018 12:01:44 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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