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US was/is/will always be a great nation.
It is never a part of China's intention to fight the US. Ideally, US should withdraw all troops from Asia and west pacific. It should be allowed to keep its influence in the west under a simple condition: you piss off on all Asian affairs.
Once upon a time the US WAS a superpower
Usa is the main customer of the china,if america stands then china stands and other countries like india and japan, who maintains the american economy to be sustained .
if these countries wants to grow and get business then they will have to support their customer i.e america.So i dont see any decline in american power.
and no country is near to become usa in near by future.so internet fanboys can jump where ever they want to...but it doesnt change reality.
i admire one thing in yanks i.e their business mind where as indians dont have this in challenging manner.
I don't think US is declining, they're still growing but the only difference is that some of the nations are growing SO FAST and SO MUCH that they're having to share their power/authority with these new powers.
POE: Time to deal with China's high-tech mafia - Washington TimesPOE: Time to deal with Chinas high-tech mafia
If there ever was a time to get serious with China, now is the time. The recent news of fake Apple and Ikea stores is almost too absurd to be true. But in China, the rules dont apply. Brand name and innovation mean zip. Intellectual property is free game. Anything is up for grabs, and if I were a betting man, Id bet that the government is getting a nice cut out of it all. But thats communism, right? Its a system in which your ideas are my ideas, your success is my success.
As our deficit soars and the U.S. continues to borrow, borrow, borrow - as much as 43 cents on every dollar - we do not have the upper hand in this battle. China increasingly owns our securities, and thanks to its currency manipulation, our dollar continues to struggle on the world market. The U.S. faced fierce economic competition from Japan in the 80s, but that was far different. China represents one-fifth of the worlds population. (By comparison, Japan has less than 2 percent.) China can dominate the market and get away with its unfair theft of American goods and innovation because of its sheer size, wealth and power. But why must we tolerate the biggest robber baron of them all?
Beijing is connected to (or at least benefits from) networks of criminal thugs. Most recently, China admitted to operating the Online Blue Army. This is exactly what it sounds like: a military unit of hackers who operate offensively at the behest of Beijing. The U.S. has fallen victim to Beijings hackers at least several times over the past few years. In October 2006, the website of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) was locked down for more than a month after repeated attacks by hackers on Chinese servers. This wasnt just some arbitrary target. No, BIS has responsibility over U.S. exports for commercial and military applications. The State Departments Washington and overseas systems were downed thanks to Chinese hackers. Its intolerable that we have yet to hold communist China accountable for these cyberdeclarations of war against the U.S.
As if accessing our secure government networks werent enough, the Chinese criminal networks also exploit our financially weak position by placing harmful pharmaceuticals on the market, making defective products and ripping off consumers left and right. Since I joined the House Judiciary Committees intellectual property subcommittee in January, Ive heard from dozens of American businesses that have experienced significant economic harm from Chinese counterfeits.
Take, for example, Houston-based Farouk Systems, maker of Chi hair products. Several years ago, FaroukShami, chairman and founder of Farouk Systems, expanded the companys operations to China to save costs. When faced with an onslaught of Chinese counterfeits, he closed the factory in China. With that move, he brought production and 1,000 jobs back to Houston and accepted higher manufacturing and salary costs without passing them along to the consumer. But also with the move, he could better protect his intellectual property and innovation.
The Chinese have become so expert in ripping off Farouk Systems Chi flatiron that the detailing on each package is almost identical to that on the legitimate product, including the exact same warranty, with a picture of Farouk Shamis face for a bit of extra authenticity. Farouk Systems regularly fields complaint calls about broken products, but the products are counterfeit! Fighting Chinese counterfeits has cost this company approximately $10 million. Thats $10 million that it could be using to hire more workers or expand its business operations.
I also met Jim D'Addario, CEO of DAddario Guitar Strings, an instrument strings manufacturer based in New York. This business, family-owned since the 1600s, has spent millions to stop the manufacture of counterfeit guitar strings in China. Mr. D'Addario has watched several coordinated raids on manufacturing facilities in China that exist solely to make counterfeit copies of D'Addario, Fender, Martin and other American companies guitar strings. On a website, its hard to tell the difference between a counterfeit and a legitimate D'Addario guitar-string set. As with the Chi flatirons, the packaging looks identical, but the fake package of guitar strings contains a hologram sticker - just to trick you - and the product inside is horrendous. It is that unbelievable.
So what do we do? The bottom line is that while Beijing benefits from these criminal networks, they hurt our government and American businesses. We must take every opportunity to (1) raise public awareness of the need for intellectual property enforcement and the dire impact on American businesses of rampant IP theft, (2) insist that China adopt strict enforcement measures to protect IP rights and (3) take action when our words fail (which they will). If China does not protect our intellectual property, we should block its imports into the U.S. Its time to play hardball with China.
The need for enforcement of intellectual property rights is more than just preventing brand dilution - or in the case of Mr. D'Addario, protecting a reputation earned over four centuries - its about the principle of working hard and having it taken from you in an instant by a crook. Todays criminals are a bit smarter and more high-tech than during my former days on the bench. They sit at laptops overseas, direct online traffic to rogue websites and make a heap of cash from selling fake goods. Many times, buyers never see the product they purchased, and by that point, its too late. Their identity is stolen; credit cards are racked up. The problem is too prevalent for us to continue to do nothing. Its time to get tough on China. And thats just the way it is.