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US Keeps China, Puts Canada on IP Priority Watch List (reuters.com)
The Trump administration on Friday labeled 36 countries as inadequately protecting U.S. intellectual property rights, keeping China on a priority watch list and adding Canada over concerns about its border controls and pharmaceutical practices. From a report: The U.S. Trade Representative's annual report on global IP concerns is separate from the "Section 301" report on Chinese technology transfer practices that has led the world's two largest economies to threaten each other with tariffs. The so-called "Special 301 Report on Intellectual Property Rights" calls out China for its "coercive technology transfer practices" and "trade secret theft, rampant online piracy, and counterfeit manufacturing." It was the 14th straight year that China was placed on the "Priority Watch List." U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is due to travel to China next week along with other senior Trump administration officials for talks on U.S. demands for changes in Beijing's trade and intellectual property policies.
Ironically enough the countries on the list don't innovate anything, they just steal other's work. Developing drugs costs money. None of the breakthoughs would exists without a profit motive.
The problem with campaign finance reform is it is only applied to non-DNC parties.
The list of campaign finance laws broken by the Clinton campaign is long and no charges (ask Bernie Sanders for details of some of them)...
Meanwhile Muller is claiming Cohen (who wasn't part of any campaign, administration, or election) broke campaign finance laws by paying a porn star and had all of his residences raided in the middle of the night for it.
Yea, we know what campaign finance laws meant, censorship of DNC opposition, nothing else.