White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech goods

Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g... by merpnderp on Friday June 15, 2018 @03:25PM (#17322734)

You're comparing apples and oranges. When has the US government stolen trade secrets from foreign companies and then bootstrapped new domestic companies to compete against them?

China has surely done all the things you're accusing the US of, but they aren't being punished for that.

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Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g... by tomarr on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:33PM (#17324237)

The US actually did this extensively during its own industrialisation, stealing IP from Britain and shielding its own fledgling domestic industries (textiles was the tech sector of the day).

Britain took steps as extensive as banning skilled people from travelling to the USA.

All this is just historic and doesn't necessarily feed into what should be done in the present situation, but it is useful to note that this is a common path that developed countries have followed in the past:

- ignore/steal IP

- protect and subsidise domestic equivalents

- upon domestic industry being competitive, reciprocally lower tariffs

- once fully developed, lobby for free trade and strong IP protection

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Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g... by pjc50 on Friday June 15, 2018 @03:55PM (#17323000)

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/30/news/airbus-germany-nsa-spyi...

(I'm not sure anything has been proven definitively in the open, but I'm not sure that applies to all these China allegations either)

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Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g... by merpnderp on Friday June 15, 2018 @05:40PM (#17323831)

So you would have had a problem with the EU retaliating if they’d felt they had enough proof for a case?

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