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Why Trump and Xi Should Strike a Deal on Technology
China often ends up hurting its domestic industry by demanding too much from foreign players.
The tete-a-tete watched round the world.
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If China is such a powerhouse of intellectual-property theft, why doesn’t Beijing do it any better?
Take the auto industry. This would seem a sector ripe for forced technology transfer, industrial espionage and all the other sharp practices causing such tension in China’s trade relationship with the U.S.