From the Financial Times (link)
China made a slew of trade concessions on Tuesday designed to allay mounting US anger over what is seen as its unfair trading practices and lax protection of intellectual property rights.
The moves, announced following a meeting of senior US and Chinese trade officials, come a week in advance of the first visit to Washington by Hu Jintao, the Chinese president.
Among the concessions was an agreement to clamp down on pirated software by allowing software to be preloaded on to computers before they are sold. About 90 per cent of software used in China in 2004 consisted of illegal, unlicensed copies worth about $3.5bn (€2.9bn, £2bn), according to a study sponsored by the Business Software Alliance.
