Name: Trump Orders China Trade Investigation | China Uncensored
Uploaded: 2021-07-11T14:10:48.000Z
Duration: 7 min 29 s
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President Donald Trump announced an investigation

“The theft of intellectual property by foreign countries

this wealth has been drained from our country

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer

to investigate China's unfair policies and practices—

the theft of American intellectual property.

What's that, Shelley?Trump actually ordered Lighthizer

to look into whether to investigate China

So it's like a pre-investigation investigation.

was quick to inform us that Trump's trade war,

It says “China is expected to retaliate.”

of the World Trade Organization mechanism

to sue the US for trade protectionism.”

The angry reaction from Chinese state-run media

Trump's pre-investigation is a great idea.

and then use it to outcompete the companies

But what President Trump is referring to is more specific.

is forcing or pressuring American companies

of having Chinese companies learn from Western companies

a bunch of car manufacturing plants in China.

But the Chinese government had a requirement:

the Chinese government forced Ford to open

a research and development laboratory in China,

that they also had to share with Chang'an Motors.

There was a similar case with General Motors.

GM wanted to sell its electric hybrid Volt car in China.

The Chinese government provides huge subsidies

It's to encourage Chinese consumers to buy them.

But they refused to give the subsidy for GM's Volt.

some of their highly sensitive engineering technology

Under a recent Chinese cybersecurity law,

to store user data from Chinese customers

to “turn over source code and encryption software

potentially giving the Chinese government

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