From Project Syndicate (link): As Hu Jintao, China’s Communist Party Secretary General and President, prepares to visit the US on April 20, myriad unresolved issues are disturbing Sino-US relations. Debates rage over the bilateral trade balance and revaluation of the renminbi, the status of Taiwan and Tibet, human rights violations, and intellectual property theft. China’s […]
Read MoreThe following essay by Geremie R. Barm√© originally appeared in the Review weekly supplement, The Australian Financial Review, 31st March 2006. Published without notes under the title “Historical Distortions”. Thanks to Mr. Barm√© for allowing CDT to reprint it here. A Year of Some Significance By Geremie R. Barm√© History matters. It matters in Australia […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal, via The China Daily: Four years after China joined the World Trade Organization, foreign companies give Beijing a fairly positive report card for moves such as cutting tariffs and opening up financial services — but they say there is a lot left to do in other areas. China’s imports have surged […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Three members of the Bush cabinet will be in Beijing for trade talks tomorrow, one day after a visit there today by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Some of the issues that come up will be genuinely difficult: for example, how to reconcile the U.S. interest in protecting the intellectual property […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune, via YaleGlobal: As part of a drive to both improve the rule of law and encourage entrepreneurship, China is seeking to improve its patent regulations. For Chinese inventors, patents both in China and abroad mean increased revenue and access to new markets. Unfortunately, despite the many efforts that Chinese innovators […]
Read MoreFrom The Time Asia: China has grown into the world’s made-to-order contract manufacturer, source of more than half the world’s output of toys, radios, DVD players, telephones, cameras, and much more. But while most of that production is legitimate”China’s factories are paid by foreign companies to mass-produce the latter’s ideas and designs”much of it is […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (subscription required): When western businessmen in China and other emerging Asian markets meet, the talk soon turns to pirates. Not the seafaring kind but the armies of imitators, counterfeiters, criminal syndicates and corrupt officials who profit by violating the rights of intellectual property owners. Almost every company has a story of […]
Read MoreFrom Electronic Engineering Time: “While the intellectual property (IP) scene is becoming complicated every other day, what probably worries some electronic industry observers most is IP regimens in mainland China. At a time when design activities in the mainland are doubling every year and territory’s fab capacity is going through a hyper growth period, protection […]
Read MoreIt is an open secret that all Chinese Internet hosting services, including wireless and instant messenger services, filter user communication through key word blocking mechanisms. But overly vague and broad Chinese internet laws...
Read MoreThe Hong Kong-based, Chinese language Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly) magazine has published a lengthy article about the recent crackdown on Southern Metropolis News (Nanfang Dushi Bao), in which two employees of the newspaper were sentenced to lengthy terms for alleged corruption and the top editor was arrested and is awaiting trial. Chinese journalists have called […]
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