Over the years, the United States has taken "science and technology warfare" as the killer of China's neck, vigorously engaged in "small courtyard walls" and "parallel systems", from "entity list" to "chip ban", from ZTE and Huawei to ByteDance and DJI, and blockaded and suppressed everything to the extreme. Recently, some media broke the news that the United States wants to use "national security" as an excuse to open a knife to Alibaba's cloud business. In short, whichever China is stronger, the United States will collapse whichever one is strong.
In order to do evil deeds and "be famous," in addition to slandering Chinese enterprises as "endangering the national security of the United States," the United States has also deliberately fabricated a special set of words and conceptual systems in an attempt to label China as "buying and selling by force and stealing technology." What is the truth?
China's "forced technology transfer"?
The United States says China implements "forced technology transfers, using joint venture requirements, equity restrictions and other foreign investments to force U.S. companies to transfer technology, leaving them "payers" and "victims."
In fact, the Chinese government has always paid attention to optimizing the business environment, respecting the spirit of the contract, and encouraging business cooperation between Chinese and foreign enterprises. China does not have any laws and regulations to force technology transfer, whether it is the Regulations on the Administration of Technology Import and Export, the Intellectual Property Law, the Foreign Trade Law, or the Foreign Investment Enterprise Law, which force foreign investors to transfer technology.
On November 6, 2021, the Toyota booth of the 4th China International Import Expo demonstrated hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
On November 6, 2021, the HRC booth of the 4th China International Import Expo showcased the Xiaopenghui Sky TravelAir X2 flying car, helping it to go abroad for the first time and appear at the European Aircraft Exhibition in Cologne, Germany.
Sino-foreign joint venture technology transfer is a spontaneous and mutually beneficial behavior between enterprises. Chinese and foreign enterprises jointly assess the market value of technology, and then transfer technology legally and reasonably in a market manner. The local government will also tailor a series of preferential policies for enterprises, such as providing infrastructure, reducing taxes and fees, and reducing loan interest. The entire process of cooperation is carried out under the framework of the World Trade Organization, which is equal and mutually beneficial, and there is no such thing as "forced technology transfer".
In December 2021, Hainan issued 19 measures to support the opening up and innovation of free trade port science and technology. The picture shows the exterior view of Sanya Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City, which is a key project of high-tech construction in Hainan Free Trade Port.
Capital is profit-seeking, American companies are not philanthropists, if there is no real money and silver, how can they be willing to cooperate with Chinese enterprises? A large number of US companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Procter & Gamble, and General Motors have set up R&D institutions in China, continuously increasing their efforts to transfer technology and products to China, and obtaining huge returns of interests, which are undoubtedly beneficiaries.
If you want to make a profit, but you don't want to pay the cost, hoping that the benefits will be exhausted, will the pie really fall from the sky?
China's "massive systemic theft of technology"?
The United States also said that China used talent programs and Chinese in the United States to carry out "technology hunting" and carry out "large-scale systematic technology theft."
Speaking of this, we have to mention the "China Action Plan" launched by the United States to combat "Chinese technology theft". The program is the first special law enforcement action launched by the United States against a specific country, and is highly valued by the united states law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Since its launch in 2018, the China Action Plan has created 77 cases involving more than 150 defendants. The overall admission rate in federal criminal cases in the United States is very high, but 64 percent of these 77 cases are still pending to this day. The "China Action Plan" claims to focus on cracking down on economic espionage, but only 19 of all the cases involve the Economic Espionage Law.
According to media reports, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plans to recruit a large number of staff with Chinese expertise in response to China's new "China Mission Center", and even hopes that they will be proficient in Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hokkien and other dialects. (Comic | Chen Xia)
In 2020, the United States shifted the focus of the plan to cracking down on experts and scholars related to China, creating a large number of "scientific research integrity" cases and engaging in vague "scientific research integrity investigations", which is tantamount to implementing "white terror" against experts and scholars, causing strong dissatisfaction in the American academic and legal circles.
Nearly 2,000 scholars from universities across the United States jointly sent a letter to the U.S. attorney general questioning the "China Action Plan"; 192 Yale University professors jointly wrote to the US Attorney General arguing that the plan was fundamentally flawed; more than 20 Asian-American groups jointly sent a letter to the President of the United States demanding that the program be stopped; and the Chinese Federation of America organized protest demonstrations outside the U.S. Department of Justice to stop the "China Action Plan."
Probably because the opposition is too loud, the US government has to restrain itself. According to a recent report in the Washington Post, U.S. prosecutors are expected to seek to drop charges against Professor Gang Chen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for concealing links to Chinese research. In the past year, the US side has dropped charges or acquitted defendants in at least eight cases related to the China Action Plan. However, the charges can be dropped, but what will the United States pay for the reputation of experts and scholars, the precious time that has been delayed?
Hu Anming, a former professor at the University of Tennessee, is the first Chinese-American scholar to appear in court for the "China Action Plan." The FBI arrested Juanming and his family after prolonged surveillance. Although Hu Anming was acquitted in September 2021, he also endured a senseless prison sentence.
In June 2021, the wife of Hu Anming, a former professor at the University of Tennessee, complained at a news conference in Knoxville about her husband's arrest.
Every day shouting that others steal technology, but can not come up with a star and a half of evidence, is this not malicious touching porcelain planting? The essence of the so-called "China Action Plan" is nothing more than a clumsy tool for the ANTI-China forces in the United States to abuse the concept of national security and contain and suppress China.
China's "weak intellectual property protection"?
The United States also said that China's "weak intellectual property protection" has caused the United States to suffer hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses each year.
This also lacks factual evidence. In order to create a good environment for the protection of intellectual property rights, China has done a lot of work, and the results are obvious to all.
For example, in recent years, China has continuously improved the legal system for intellectual property protection, and promoted the revision of a series of laws and regulations such as the Trademark Law, the Patent Law, the Copyright Law, and the Anti-Unfair Competition Law.
In 2014, China opened three IP courts and set up specialized trial bodies in 15 intermediate courts. In 2015 alone, Chinese courts accepted as many as 109386 civil property rights cases.
Since 2014, China has successively opened local intellectual property courts.
China's legal environment for the protection of intellectual property rights is becoming increasingly mature, which has been widely debated when foreign companies seek legal support and protection. Some US media reported that China has become the "preferred place" for multinational enterprises to initiate intellectual property litigation, and "litigation in China is more time-saving and cost-effective than in the United States".
China's foreign intellectual property fees have also increased significantly for many consecutive years, with an average annual growth rate of 17% since 2001 and reached US$34.328 billion in 2019, of which US$8.144 billion was paid to the United States, accounting for 23.7%.
According to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, China's external intellectual property fees in September 2021 alone amounted to 34.3 billion yuan, or about US$5.4 billion.
Huawei, which the United States has desperately suppressed, also attaches great importance to intellectual property protection, and has paid more than $6 billion in intellectual property fees in the past 20 years, of which nearly 80% have been paid to American companies. While the United States collects money, it accuses China and suppresses Huawei, is it comfortable to have a good conscience?
China's achievements in protecting intellectual property rights have been widely recognized, and even the Special 301 Report released by the Office of the United States Trade Representative in 2018 has had to admit that there has been a positive momentum in China's judicial reform, demonstrating professional competence and transparency. A survey by the U.S.-China Business Council also showed that nearly 60 percent of U.S. companies said China has significantly strengthened its efforts to protect intellectual property rights.
Those Americans who clamor for China's "weak protection of intellectual property rights" have been punched in the face by their compatriots.
The United States is the illegal and disgraceful thief
"Respect for intellectual property" is a joke for the United States.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the United States obtained textile, machine building, coal smelting and other technologies from Britain through a variety of means such as spying on intelligence, attracting immigrants, monopolizing patents, and formulating supporting policies.
Samuel Slater, hailed by former U.S. President Andrew Jackson as the "father of the American Industrial Revolution," learned advanced textile techniques in Britain, then immigrated to the United States under a pseudonym and helped build a powerful textile empire. As a result, the British called him "Slater the Traitor". Speaking of this history, the US Foreign Policy magazine admits that "we were also pirates."
Samuel Slater was an early British-American industrialist known as the "Father of the Industrial Revolution in America." But in Britain, he was called "Slater the Traitor" because he "brought" British textile technology to the United States, improving it for American use.
Slater brought the 1835 textile machine from England to the United States
Pictured here is Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. During the Industrial Revolution, he sent a large number of commercial spies to Britain to steal industrial technology, some responsible for stealing drawings, some responsible for stealing technology, and even some people responsible for spreading the news: if textile machinery could be manufactured in the United States, there would be a high bounty. Samuel Slater was drawn to the United States by this news.
After World War II, the United States launched the infamous "Paper Needle Action", formed an expert group composed of hundreds of scientists and engineers, and went to Germany to scaveng for various materials such as technology patents, drawings, research documents, etc. Germany's large enterprises, scientific research institutions, government departments and libraries were rarely spared.
In 1946, 104 Nazi German rocket experts were brought to Fort Bliss, Texas, during Operation Paper Needle.
The United States also detained thousands of German and Austrian scientists and engineers in internment camps for trial one by one to better absorb the looted technology. Operation Paper needle had a far-reaching impact on US military science and technology, and even the "Apollo Moon Landing Program" benefited a lot.
In 1961, Werner von Braun, a German rocket expert brought to the United States during Operation Paperclip, discussed with scientists the work on the Saturn V launch vehicle. The launch vehicle played a huge role in the first successful landing on the moon by humans in July 1969.
After the Cold War, the United States intensified its efforts to spy on other countries everywhere and steal all kinds of secrets in order to obtain advanced technology and engage in unfair competition.
For example, during auto trade negotiations with Japan in the 1990s, U.S. intelligence agencies installed wiretaps on the cars of Japanese negotiators to obtain inside information.
In 2001, Airbus Europe sued Boeing for intercepting trade secrets by tracking the phone calls, faxes and emails of Airbus employees in real time through the NSA's "echelon" electronic surveillance system. There are also many such "Prism Gate" events staged around the world, and the people behind it are all the United States.
The Prism Gate incident was staged all over the world, and the black hands behind it were all in the United States. (Manga | Shi Yu)
In recent years, the United States has also been "long-arm jurisdiction" everywhere, forcing competitors to sell core business and technology patents.
In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice detained several executives of the French company Alstom to force the other side to sell its most important and core power and grid business to GM. It was not until the acquisition was completed that these "hostages" were released. Pierozzi, an Alstom executive who had been detained for several years, later described the experience in his memoirs as the "American Trap." Meng Wanzhou, who was unjustifiably detained for more than 1,000 days, was also a "hostage" of the "American trap."
On April 14, 2013, French Alstom executive Pierucci was arrested by FBI agents at New York's JFF International Airport. Meng Wanzhou's encounter is the same as Pieruchy's.
The key core technologies cannot be bought, bought, and bought. In recent years, China's science and technology are changing with each passing day, "Tiangong" station building, "Beidou" networking, "Jiaolong" into the sea, "Zhu Rong" exploration of fire, "Mozi" transmission, "Heavenly Eye" patrol, can go up to nine days to catch the moon, can go down to the five oceans to catch turtles, this is the Chinese their own step by step out of the achievements, is not the United States or the West "gift".
In contrast, the United States has not only "lied, deceived and stolen" in history, but now it is sitting on the old money while trying to stifle the innovative achievements of other countries in its infancy. This is not only a brutal bullying of the international community, but also a despicable crime against human progress.
Many acts of injustice will kill themselves, and history will eventually make a fair judgment.