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Theft of Intellectual Property

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Theft of Intellectual Property
In recent years, high-profile cases of industrial espionage by the communist Chinese regime have prompted the Trump administration to take a multi-pronged approach to crack down on Chinese theft of U.S. intellectual property. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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One thing is sure: Washington has failed utterly in protecting American intellectual property (IP) from Chinese stealing. That failure has spanned decades under both Republicans and Democrats.

Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."
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