From China Daily:
US-filing complaints to the WTO over alleged commercial piracy in China will “badly damage” cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on Tuesday, saying that China has made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights.
“The United States Trade Representative, the USTR, has totally ignored the massive strides China has made,” Wu told an intellectual property forum in Beijing.
The US action “flies in the face of the agreement between the two countries’ leaders to propose dialogue as a way of settling disputes,” Wu said, adding that never before had a WTO member simultaneously mounted two cases against another country. [Full Text]