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The Difficulty of Resolving US-China Intellectual Property Disputes

The Difficulty of Resolving US-China Intellectual Property Disputes
President Donald J. Trump signs a memorandum on addressing China's laws, policies, practices, and actions related to intellectual property, innovation, and technology at The White House in Washington on Aug. 14, 2017. Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images
He Qinglian
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Chinese Vice Premier Liu He’s recent visit to the United States for trade negotiations produced no visible results. Among the seven topics covered in the communiqué, numbers one, two, and four all involve intellectual property (IP) rights.

They are, according to the White House, (1) the ways in which United States companies are pressured to transfer technology to Chinese companies; (2) the need for stronger protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in China; (4) the harm resulting from China’s cyber-theft of United States commercial property.

He Qinglian
He Qinglian
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He Qinglian is a prominent Chinese author and economist. Currently based in the United States, she authored “China’s Pitfalls,” which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s, and “The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China,” which addresses the manipulation and restriction of the press. She regularly writes on contemporary Chinese social and economic issues.
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