Regarding CHN "stealing" of technology, it is useful to keep several things in mind:
1. Most of the "stealing" is trading of access to the Chinese market for transfer of technology. So the issue is whether China has the right to use its huge market as a leverage in negotiations.
1. Most of the "stealing" is trading of access to the Chinese market for transfer of technology. So the issue is whether China has the right to use its huge market as a leverage in negotiations.
2. All of today's developed countries (as described by Ha Joon Chang in "Bad Samaritans") routinely "stole" foreign technologies to get ahead. They, incl. the US, generally refused to accept foreigners' patent rights (see Chang's chapter 6).
3. International devt organizations for decades lamented insufficient transfer of technology from rich to poor countries. Does it make sense now, when such transfers seem to work (other countries' using the same tactics as CHN), to reverse that position?
4. A very strict approach to IPRs and technology transfers is likely to slow the development of poorer countries and to increase poverty over what it would have been without such protection.
Both history and the present seem to argue for a much more nuanced view than "stealing".
Both history and the present seem to argue for a much more nuanced view than "stealing".
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