>>>For the 9,376th time, the tariffs are NOT about trade. They are about the $500-$800 billion annual theft of IP.
If China were to agree to new rules limiting IP transfer, might that actually encourage more firms to relocate there?
It might. Offhand I would think that any firms interested in relocating to China would have done so a decade or more ago.
I don’t know exactly how the current situation can be fixed. The Chinese government has massive armies of people dedicated to purloining industrial secrets, both from the US, and from cos already in China. They have armies of students in US universities looking to swipe larval research and in many cases more advanced going on there.
Lest you think this is entirely a high-tech deal; the latest instance of IP theft involved the theft of a technology to line soft drink cans such that the liner did not bleed into the product. Soft drinks are a stunningly enormous industry in China.