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Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by cylinder on Saturday May 13, 2017 @03:33PM (#14332586)
I don't see how stealing IP is protectionism. Theft, sure, but not protectionism.
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Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by CuriousSkeptic on Saturday May 13, 2017 @03:45PM (#14332628)
I would say it's the other way around.

Negotiating international trade agreements with the purpose of limiting the flow of information by means of "IP" is the very definition of protectionism.

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Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by Retric on Saturday May 13, 2017 @04:07PM (#14332739)
Mutual IP agreements are not protectionism just an equal playing field. Protecting domestic companies, but not foreign ones on the other hand is the definition of protectionism.

PS: Abolishing IP would also be a level playing field, but again that's not what they are doing.

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Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by candiodari on Sunday May 14, 2017 @08:55AM (#14335429)
If you think China's IP practices are intended to create an equal playing field, you're more than just a little bit naive.

Also mostly Chinese domestic companies' protectionism is about the same thing as the European version of the same is : getting enough Chinese people jobs so they don't revolt.

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