'Murica. China. It's ON. [US Dials Up On Another $200 BILLION Plus Another Possible $200B For $450B]

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https://www.voanews.com/amp/china-calls-trump-threat-of-more-tariffs-blackmail-/4445996.html

China calls President Donald Trump’s threat to slap more tariffs on Chinese exports to the U.S. “extreme pressure and blackmail” and threatens to retaliate. Beijing reacted to Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods “if China refuses to change its practices.”

“China apparently has no intention of changing its unfair practices related to the acquisition of American intellectual property and technology,” a presidential statement said late Monday. “Rather than altering those practices, it is now threatening United States companies, workers, and farmers who have done nothing wrong.”

The president has ordered Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to identify a list of $200 billion in additional Chinese goods subject to a 10 percent tariff — a move that would bring on another round of Chinese penalties on American products.

Trump has already ordered 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese products. Those penalties are scheduled to take effect early next month and will likely be followed by Chinese countermeasures.

The U.S. has long accused China of stealing U.S. technology secrets, requiring U.S. firms to share intellectual property as a condition for doing business in joint ventures in China. China denies such theft and accuses Washington of “deviating from the consensus reached by both parties.”

 

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From a New York Times Op-Ed Last Summer:

For too long, the United States has treated China as a developing nation to be coaxed and lectured, while tolerating its bad behavior as merely growing pains. There has been an expectation that as China’s economy matures, it will of its own accord adopt international standards in commerce, including protection for intellectual property. There has also been a tendency to excuse mercantilist behavior, including industrial espionage, as a passing phase, and to justify inaction as necessary to secure Chinese cooperation on other, supposedly more important, issues.

Chinese companies, with the encouragement of official Chinese policy and often the active participation of government personnel, have been pillaging the intellectual property of American companies. All together, intellectual-property theft costs America up to $600 billion a year, the greatest transfer of wealth in history. China accounts for most of that loss.

Intellectual-property theft covers a wide spectrum: counterfeiting American fashion designs, pirating movies and video games, patent infringement and stealing proprietary technology and software. This assault saps economic growth, costs Americans jobs, weakens our military capability and undercuts a key American competitive advantage — innovation.

Chinese companies have stolen trade secrets from virtually every sector of the American economy: automobiles, auto tires, aviation, chemicals, consumer electronics, electronic trading, industrial software, biotech and pharmaceuticals. Last year U.S. Steel accused Chinese hackers of stealing trade secrets related to the production of lightweight steel, then turning them over to Chinese steel makers.

Perhaps most concerning, China has targeted the American defense industrial base. Chinese spies have gone after private defense contractors and subcontractors, national laboratories, public research universities, think tanks and the American government itself. Chinese agents have gone after the United States’ most significant weapons, such as the F-35 Lightning, the Aegis Combat System and the Patriot missile system; illegally exported unmanned underwater vehicles and thermal-imaging cameras; and stolen documents related to the B-52 bomber, the Delta IV rocket, the F-15 fighter and even the Space Shuttle.

 

[QuintessentialMan]

lets be honest though America(in tandem with the Soviets) created this whole spy espionage secret agent theft business, Now they're mad because other nations do it to them better. You cant complain man you taught everyone else how to do it. We all live in the world you created. Same goes for all its weapons policing. You made and used Nukes and all other high tech weapons and now you wanna police Nukes globally. Thats hypocritical. No one with means is going to stand for that. A lot of the horrible stuff thats happened globally is blowback from US shenanigannery. You have no moral ground to stand on. Not in the eyes of the rest of the world anyway. Its simply too late to complain this way. You have to sit there and take it. All this seems like a 5 year old temper tantrum to me and it wont end well for anybody involved. My guess is that Trumps administration is most likely gone in a couple of years and some soft ass democrat is going to roll all this back to how it was instead of riding it all the way. .

 

[wtfyomom]

lets be honest though America(in tandem with the Soviets) created this whole spy espionage secret agent theft business, Now they're mad because other nations do it to them better. You cant complain man you taught everyone else how to do it. We all live in the world you created. Same goes for all its weapons policing. You made and used Nukes and all other high tech weapons and now you wanna police Nukes globally. Thats hypocritical. No one with means is going to stand for that. A lot of the horrible stuff thats happened globally is blowback from US shenanigannery. You have no moral ground to stand on. Not in the eyes of the rest of the world anyway. Its simply too late to complain this way. You have to sit there and take it. All this seems like a 5 year old temper tantrum to me and it wont end well for anybody involved. My guess is that Trumps administration is most likely gone in a couple of years and some soft ass democrat is going to roll all this back to how it was instead of riding it all the way. .

only country to ever use nukes but its ok that we have enough nukes to blow up the world multiple times over but dont let Iran even think about a nuke, its really laughable, its also why idgaf about russia supposedly "hacking" our election, par for the course. the whole thing is dirty af.

 

[Mr Rager]

A list of US demands:


* China will cease all technological/cyber theft as well as cease any and all policies which aim to force American firms to share technologies with China.

Good luck with that