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exaeta [soylentnews.org] writes:

It's no secret that Donald Trump is beholden to the copyright special interests.

The United States has been accused of demanding “enormous, even hundreds” of changes to Chinese laws to protect intellectual property, according to a Chinese government adviser, who said it was a key factor in the collapse of the trade talks.

It seems Trump wants to prevent a non-U.S. model of copyrights, patents, etc. from being successful. The Chinese are showing how terrible our current model is, and soon will surpass our technological capability. Instead of emulating them and reforming our IP laws, the IP lobby wants to exterminate this threat to Status-Quo Big Business Profits by eliminating it in China, so the Americans here don't wake up and realize just how ineffective and counterproductive our IP system actually is.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3014057/us-accused-undermining-trade-talks-demanding-hundreds-changes [scmp.com]

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