When you look at international business history, it is clear that symmetric tit-for-tat is a dumb way to operate. Even if China is doing everything from currency manipulation to protecting its markets and stealing IP (not news) it is dumb for the *US* to retaliate in kind
There was a broad, vast pattern of IP spillover from Europe over ~150 years that people like Trump would consider “moral theft” (as in not ethics, but react to with grievance as “unfair”). Specifics of prevailing IP regimes and legal notions of IP theft are not that interesting.
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That’s quite a different thing than the sort of corporate (and nation-state) espionage that China conducts against the US. Equating the two is not intellectually honest.
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I think it’s a perfectly valid. The self-serving IP regimes instituted by the west are not exactly noble gospel from heaven codifying an absolute morality for all humans. They’re expedient, advantageous artifacts created by powerful institutions at the height of their power.
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