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