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Washington Complains to WTO over China Piracy

by jordan | April 10, 2007 at 08:24 am | 407 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

Somehow I don't think the Chinese government will cave to Washington's threats, and I'm not sure how they could comply to the US's satisfaction, knowing what we know about how piracy works (it's not really state-sponsored!), and how hard it is to stop. Exacerbating this is the Chinese government's general attitude toward the US.

Beijing lashed out at the Bush administration today after Washington went whining to the WTO about China's record on combating piracy.

The Americans have accused the Chinese of, on the one hand, failing to open up their markets to books, music, video and movies, and on the other hand of not doing enough to protect and enforce copyrights and trademarks.

China has reacted angrily, state news agency Xinhua reported, with Tian Lipu, commissioner of the Intellectual Property Office, telling a conference: "It's not a sensible move for the US government to file such complaint."