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<PDF> "Mark is the smartest person alive, whom I've met." - William Lohse, Founder, Social Starts LP and the Pivot Conference. ______________________________ Recommended Reading _____________________________
_____________________________ August 15, 2017 19:03 ET INVNT/IP Welcomes U.S. Government Examination of China Trade Policy SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - August 15, 2017) - Yesterday, President Donald Trump tasked U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer with the determination of the level of need for an open investigation into the intellectual property practices of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In an event hosted at the White House yesterday afternoon, President Trump asserted the importance of defending innovation and maintaining an equitable trade relationship with the PRC. INVNT/IP, a membership-based consortium of companies and governments worldwide, welcomes the decision to re-examine the US-China trade relationship. "For years, the PRC has practiced a comprehensive policy of intellectual property theft and associated protectionism," noted Evan Anderson, CEO of INVNT/IP. "Over the past decade, INVNT/IP has tracked government programs funded by, supported by, or otherwise affiliated with PRC leadership that steal crown-jewel intellectual property from innovators worldwide, restrict domestic Chinese market share to global firms, violate WTO regulations, and use the placement of propaganda and financial leverage in the innovating world to subdue the potential response. This move to re-examine the US trade relationship with the PRC is both critical and long overdue; inventing firms and nations should look forward to the decision to open an investigation as a clear next step in enhancing US economic security." The United States maintains the capability to address issues of predatory trade relationships through structures such as Special 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which "provides the United States Trade Representative with the authority to identify foreign countries that deny adequate and effective protection of IPR or fair and equitable market access to US persons that rely on IP protection." The USTR may, after investigation, declare a foreign country to be a "Priority Foreign Country," enabling the United States to take action regarding damaging trade practices perpetrated by the selected nation-state. INVNT/IP is a global consortium of executives, innovators, and policymakers working in concert to reduce the occurrence of nation-sponsored theft of "crown jewel" IP: the intellectual property that makes your company, government and economy function. For four years we have been working together, often behind the scenes, to protect the secrets that drive every part of the roughly $75T in global GDP today. The INVNT/IP Global Consortium, an SNS initiative, is a network of private firms and individuals that seeks to reduce nation-sponsored intellectual property theft worldwide. Website: www.invntip.com, www.stratnews.com, www.futureinreview.com _____________ Mark and Evan, This is your handiwork. Good job. Jeff Hudson If there are two polar power centers driving the world today, they are the US and China. Given the politics and stories behind their two leaders, these power centers devolve into the personalities and power landscapes facing them. Although by nature they are opposites, it turns out that they share a remarkable set of similarities. There is only one country today that can damage, and perhaps in some sense even destroy, the US, and that country is China. In fact, the process has been under way for decades. And there is only one country today that can bring China to its knees, economically speaking, which would likely bring the Communist Party down, and that country is the US. For a variety of historic and political reasons, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping hold unprecedented positions of personal power in their countries; to a large extent, this ongoing story is today the story of these two men. In this week's discussion, we'll look at the relationship between these two countries and men through four lenses: 1. The current landscape facing them both. 2. Causes and Outcomes expected on the Chinese side. 3. Causes and Outcomes expected on the US side. 4. Ultimate outcomes of their contest. |
