Federal Prosecutors Pursuing Criminal Case Against Huawei for Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets: Report (wsj.com)

Federal prosecutors are pursuing a criminal investigation of China's Huawei for allegedly stealing trade secrets from U.S. business partners, including the technology behind a robotic device that T-Mobile used to test smartphones, WSJ reported Wednesday. From a report: The investigation grew in part out of civil lawsuits against Huawei, including one in which a Seattle jury found Huawei liable for misappropriating robotic technology from T-Mobile's Bellevue, Wash., lab, the people familiar with the matter said. The probe is at an advanced stage and could lead to an indictment soon, they said. The link to the source article may be paywalled; here's an alternative source.

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Re:China is a big problem

[Anonymous Coward]

Trump isn't taking a "hardline" stance on China, Trump is a bullshitter pretending to act hard hoping China will blink first. China plays the long game and will easily, easily outlast that nitwit's attention span. Plus, Trump is prison bound.

So there's that.

Re:China is a big problem

[gordguide]

There's a lot of BS with respect to China and IP violations.
The vast majority of companies complaining about Chinese companies making products that violate their "IP" never bothered to patent their shit in China. It is not the Chinese government's problem to uphold US/EU patents in their own country. It's not even a problem at all.
Now, as soon as they try to import their IP violating products into a country where it's patented it becomes a problem but that's not China's problem either.

China is a signatory member of the World Trade Association.

Association members are required to enforce all IP of other association member countries, so a US Patent is effectively a China Patent as well.