Trade problems with China are not unknown in places other than the US. For instance, take the case of the pirated BMW.

Long known for engineering excellence, the BMW is an upscale automotive product of a European carmaker.

But the piracy doesn't stop with the BMW X5. Daimler Chrysler took it's own hit when the Chinese copied one of their products, the Smart mini car, too.

We now have carjackers from Shijiazhuang.

At any rate, European car makers may have invited the piracy by first building their own plants in China, where risky business can be portrayed as any business.

In China, intellectual property rights are best summed up as "we stole it, now it's ours".


 

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