A 2000 report "Finally! Chipmakers Applaud China's WTO Acceptance," Electronic News, Jan 10, 2000, Grant Robert Johnson reported that China agreed to WTO rules. Gone would be the "mandatory requirements that imported goods go through a Chinese agent or middleman" and more importantly gone too is this. "Access to China's domestic market [was] contingent upon a foreign partner's willingness to transfer advanced technologies and Intellectual Property (IP) to the Chinese partner."
Had China lived up to its WTO agreement and true free trade resulted many of us would have no complaints. It would be a good sign that the Chi-com masters were out and Chinese citizens truly were on their way to individual rights. Fact is, the Party members and princelings are the "capitalists."
Still the problems exist. Just plucking something out of the google fishing net I offer this from the Harvard China Review. It is about a panel assembled to discuss Sustaining China's Economic Growth
This panel addressed these issues
* How should the Chinese government promote FDI and protect foreign investors' property rights?
* How to ensure efficient transfer of technologies and management expertise?
* How can foreign enterprises achieve profits while managing the risks of investing in China?
* What actions should the government take to strengthen IP law enforcement?
* How can foreign firms preempt IP infringement and protect themselves?
You see, (actually, I guess "free" traders won't) my concern is about all these things especially our useful idiots worrying about how to "ensure efficient transfer of technologies and management expertise" to communists who have every intent of increasing the number of nuke missiles aimed at us, our forces, and our friends around the world. They make no secret of their feeeeeeeeeeeelings.
These same useful idiots put their intellectual property (IP) in country and fret that the Chinese are stealing it.
I think I am beginning to understand how Lenin came up with "useful idiot." Useful to the communist, idiot is self-explanatory.