Falsehoods in US Perceptions of China

Reality Check (Part 17 of 21) Falsehoods in US Perceptions of China https://english.news.cn (June 19 2022) Part 16 is at https://billtotten.wpcomstaging.com/2022/07/12/reality-check-part-16-of-21/ Falsehood 17 China takes advantage of the openness of the US economies to spy, hack, steal technology and know-how, advance China's military innovation, to entrench its surveillance state, and increase other countries' technological dependence. The US should make sure that technologies are rooted in democratic values. Reality check China's technological innovation and development is based on its own investment and efforts. The US is drawing ideological lines in scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, and this embodies its Cold War mentality. * China is a big innovator in the world with leading input and growth rate in innovation. According to statistics, China's social R&D investment in 2021 reached 2.7864 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.2 percent over the previous year. A total of 696,000 invention patents were authorized in 2021, up by 31.3 percent year on year. The Global Innovation Index (GII) 2021 published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) shows that China's world innovation performance ranking has moved up from 35th place to 12th. China is now home to 19 of the top 100 science and technology clusters worldwide, ranking second globally. Chinese applicants submitted 69,500 international patent applications, making China the first in the world for three consecutive years. The European Patent Office (EPO) recorded 16,665 applications from China in 2021, registering a year-on-year increase of 24 percent and the biggest surge among leading patent filing countries. * In recent years, China has been actively integrating into the global science and technology innovation network, and has enjoyed fruitful results in technological and people-to-people exchanges under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In addition, China has also actively worked to join the Hague Agreement and the Marrakesh Treaty, contributing its share to the global governance of intellectual property rights. The Business Confidence Survey 2021 published by the EUCCC shows that over half of interviewed companies view intellectual property rights enforcement in China as "adequate" or "excellent". * Throughout history, the US has repeatedly stolen intellectual properties and reaped dividends from technological developments through various means, including prying out information, offering immigration status, and monopolizing patents. After World War Two, the US launched Operation Paperclip to plunder Germany of its technology patents, including those on advanced aircraft and guided missile control. Nearly all German government agencies, research and development institutes, and large companies were looted, and German scientists were forced to immigrate to the US. In the 1990s, US intelligence agencies installed eavesdropping devices in the cars of Japanese negotiators during automobile trade talks to intercept internal information and gain the upper hand in the negotiations. In 2001, the European company Airbus sued the American company Boeing for tracking Airbus employees' telephone, fax, and e-mails for business espionage using the electronic surveillance system named Echelon developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA). In 2013, the US Department of Justice detained four Alstom executives to force the French company into a fire sale of its core business, power and grid, to the US company General Electric. In 2021, Danish media exposed that the US NSA wiretapped senior officials and business leaders in European countries using internet facilities located in Denmark. In addition, using "chip shortages" as an excuse, the US has also set deadlines to force leading chip makers from different countries to submit key information, including orders, clients, and inventory, in an effort to turn the table in the chip sector. * While claiming to uphold "peace" and "openness", the US has been wantonly setting up technological barriers, piecing together the so-called "democratic technology alliance", politicizing science and technology and turning them into ideological issues, and forming exclusive small circles. Identifying nearly 20 categories as controlled critical technologies, including biotechnology and artificial intelligence, the US has tightened up export control and investment scrutiny. It has also overstretched the concept of national security to contain and even stranglehold the development of high-tech industries in other countries, which severely violates the rights of developing countries in pursuing science and technology advancement. Source: fmprc.gov.cnEditor: huaxia2022-06-19 22:19:29 https://english.news.cn/20220619/edf2556087954b8d90440b077a3c3c21/c.html https://billtotten.wordpress.com/ https://www.ashisuto.co.jp--- To unsubscribe: List help: