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Re:Forced Tech Transfers Are on the Rise in China, European ... by dv_dt on Monday May 20, 2019 @12:40PM (#19962220)
IMHO, government has little real power to pragmatically curtail this as a formal trade issue. If it's legally not allowed, it's not like employees in China can't walk away with the tech anyway. The question is where you want to build your technology base and where short term greed drives you to build.

Private IP of companies isn't any sort of public commons. By deciding to build stuff in China, they've already left the only arguable commons part of that - the common labor knowledge base that forms naturally where you put your actual build operations.

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Re:Forced Tech Transfers Are on the Rise in China, European ... by CogitoCogito on Monday May 20, 2019 @12:44PM (#19962265)
Well the US could for example put up trade barriers that are costly enough for China to change. Of course it might not work due to lack of US political will, or strong Chinese political will, or any number of reasons, but it's not like nothing is possible. I'm not necessarily saying this is a good idea, but it's not like this is some magically impossible problem to solve.
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