Seeking Greater Global Power, China Looks to Robots and Microchips
Zhang Ping, a scholar of trade law at Peking University in Beijing, said the West had long used intellectual property laws as a “spear
and shield” against Chinese companies, hurting their profits at home and blocking access to foreign markets.
Some have called for reciprocity, arguing that the United States should impose
on Chinese companies the same restrictions China places on foreign companies.
China is now gathering know-how in industries of the future like microchips
and electric cars, often by pushing foreign companies attracted by the country’s vast market into sharing their technology.