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Gary Locke

Gary Locke

Gary Faye Locke (Traditional Chinese:駱家輝) is an American politician and the current United States Ambassador to China.

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Geithner slams China's intellectual property policies

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday that China is holding to its decades-old strategy to steal American intellectual property, in a pointed statement reflecting U.

S. officials' growing impatience with Beijing."They <China> have made possible systematic stealing of intellectual property of American companies and have not been very aggressive to put in place the basic protections for property rights that every serious economy needs over time," Geithner told a forum in Washington."We're seeing China continue to be very, very aggressive in a strategy they started several decades ago, which goes like this: you want to sell to our country, we want you to come produce here ... if you want to come produce here, you need to transfer your technology to us," Geithner said.Although unusually direct, Geithner's comments echo a common refrain from U.S. officials and executives. The new U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke , who has assailed China in the past f...

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  1. AT&T Executive: Would Welcome Regulatory Changes To Boost China Competition

    BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- AT&T Inc. (T) would welcome regulatory changes to boost competition in China and other markets in Asia, and it would review boosting its stake ...

  2. US Trade Officials To Urge Small Businesses To Export

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  3. Corporate CEOs to Meet With China's President

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  4. Government Stifling Innovation

    Acacia Research CEO Paul Ryan discusses why government regulation is hurting American innovation.

  5. China to Appeal WTO Tire Ruling

    China plans to appeal a World Trade Organization ruling that the U.S. was entitled to impose extra safeguard duties on Chinese tires, the Ministry of Commerce said o...

  6. Commerce Dept.: U.S. Should Make Changes to Wireless Spectrum

    The Commerce Department recommended on Monday that some airwaves used by federal agencies be freed up to address the burgeoning use of wireless devices.The Obama adm...

  7. US Lays Out Strategy for Doubling Exports in 5 Years

    The Obama administration laid out details of a strategy to double U.S. exports over five years Thursday, recommending ways to boost commerce but steering clear of ti...

  8. US union files case on China clean energy practices

    WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The United Steelworkersunion on Thursday asked President Barack Obama's administrationto investigate Chinese policies and practices it...

  9. US union to file clean energy case versus China

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United Steelworkersunion said Wednesday it planned to file a comprehensivetrade case against "protectionist and predatory practices" usedb...

  10. U.S. lays out plan to strengthen anti-dumping regime

    By Doug PalmerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday announced plans to toughen rules against what it sees as unfair foreign trade practices, proposing...

  11. EXCLUSIVE-U.S. plans to strengthen anti-dumping trade regime

    By Doug PalmerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department plans to toughen rules against what it sees as unfair foreign trade practices that threaten U.S. jo...

  12. Obama to sign bill to boost U.S. manufacturers

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will sign a bill into law Wednesday aimed at helping U.S. manufacturers by temporarily suspending import duties on a lo...

  1. U.S. ambassador urges China to lower trade barriers

    By Michael MartinaBEIJING (Reuters) - China must reduce barriers to foreign companies if it is to meet its own development goals, the U.S. ambassador said in Beijing...

  2. China eases government procurement rules after U.S. pressure

    BEIJING (Reuters) - China will drop some of the "indigenous innovation" rules for government purchases that have riled foreign companies, the Ministry of Finance ann...

  3. Obama Nominates Bryson Commerce Secretary

    President Barack Obama will nominate former Edison International chief executive John Bryson Tuesday to be the next Commerce secretary, filling an important trade jo...

  4. Foreign firms bidding for China contracts face uneven playing

    By Michael MartinaBEIJING (Reuters) - Foreign companies bidding for public projects in China , valued at $1 trillion a year, face a sharply tilted playing field, a E...

  5. Obama's Search for Commerce Secretary Could Snag Google's Schmidt

    To fill a new void at the top of the Commerce Department , the White House is reportedly thinking about tapping Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt or former Pfize...

  6. Motorola CEO on Japan, President Obama

    Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown on meeting President Obama to discuss reorganizing trade operations.

  7. Startup America Looks to Create Jobs

    'Startup America' Founding Board Member Carl Schramm on the administration's efforts to boost job creation.

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