China's Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Innovation Policy

Today's hearing of the U. S.-China Commission focuses on two broad areas in the U. S.-China relationship: the treatment of intellectual property rights, including business software, computers, Internet streaming, recent WTO actions brought by the U. S. against China in this area; and second, the Chinese policy of indigenous innovation, so-called ININ, and its wide-ranging implications for our economic and strategic relationship. The question is, where do we stand on these matters ten years after China's accession to the WTO and assumptions of obligations in WTO, and the U. S. granting China Permanent Most Favored Nation treatment?