Is the office of the U.S. Trade Representative cracking down on Chinese search engines Baidu and Taobao for being ‘notorious markets’ for pirated goods – or is it simply retaliating for Google’s controversial withdrawal from the China market? According to this news item from China’s state-controlled Finance East Day, one Chinese analyst suggests that Beijing must stand up to the U.S. for smearing Baidu and Taobao, and respond with ‘counter-sanctions.’
The news item from China’s Finance East Day says in part:
Xie Mingdun, professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, says that the U.S. Trade Representative has unilaterally developed a set of one-sided standards, finds fault with foreign firms, is using intellectual property rights to suppress Chinese enterprises, and is acting in retaliation for Google’s withdrawal from China market.
Xie Mingdun also suggested that with Chinese businesses being so unfavorably labeled when no single enterprise is capable of addressing the problem, the government must respond and not allow individual businesses to fall victim to this policy of trade suppression. He suggested that while China should strengthen legislation on intellectual property rights, it also needs to take a much harder line when it comes to America’s complaints and initiate counter-sanctions.
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