[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

From Wrigley gum to Cisco routers, China has been stealing patents and copyrights, then making their own versions and selling these products as their own.
According to these American companies they lost $20 billion to China alone. This is just the beginning.

It is National Suicide. Clinton's been gone for 3 years, and offshoring and outsourcing have accelerated.
Recently the last place in the U.S. making high quality magnets (used to make smart bombs) closed. Now 88% are made in Communist China.

[harpseal]

Under Chinese rules the companies who make products there must transfer teh technology and teh ownership of that technology to the Chinese government after a period of time. Ford sees the idea of a market but that market will never be there. The managers who did this should be strung up by Ford's stockholders.