It becomes clearer every day that the U.S. and China are involved in a modern-day Cold War. Unlike with the old (and new) Cold War between the U.S. and Russia, the Cold War with China is fought over the future of technology and control of the global innovation economy. Thus, this strategic competition plays out, not on battlefields, but in patent lawsuits in courts in the U.S., China, and across the globe.
The last salvos were fired on March 10, when a bipartisan bill was introduced in the Senate, the Defending American Courts Act, and on February 18 when the European Union filed a complaint in the World Trade Organization. Both the U.S. and E.U. legal actions are responses to China’s misuse of its courts to advance its own nationalist economic policies.
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