A man shops for Chinese-made computer software in Beijing, China, in 1996. Picture: AFP A man shops for Chinese-made computer software in Beijing, China, in 1996. Picture: AFP
A man shops for Chinese-made computer software in Beijing, China, in 1996. Picture: AFP
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How China’s rampant intellectual property theft, long overlooked by US, sparked trade war

The first article in a two-part series exploring the trade war between the world’s two superpowers argues we should have seen it coming: Trump made getting tough on China central to his election campaign, but media looked the other way

Topic |   US-China trade war
Robert Boxwell
Robert Boxwell

Updated: 2:49pm, 19 Nov, 2018

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A man shops for Chinese-made computer software in Beijing, China, in 1996. Picture: AFP A man shops for Chinese-made computer software in Beijing, China, in 1996. Picture: AFP
A man shops for Chinese-made computer software in Beijing, China, in 1996. Picture: AFP
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