Chapter 653: Ease of Relations
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Forbes translates as Forbes in Taiwan, which contains the meaning of being rich and rivaling the country, which is in line with the purpose of Forbes, and is the best translation scheme for the combination of sound and meaning, and is translated as Forbes in the mainland. Forbes magazine is known for its bold predictions, and recently released a report on the future of 21st century cities, predicting the world's top 10 megacities in 2015, including Shanghai in China, Tokyo in Japan and Mumbai in India. The report also predicts that by 2100 at the earliest, problems such as unbalanced population growth, natural disasters, climate warming and urbanization will lead to famous cities such as San Francisco in the United States and Venice in Italy.
Forbes magazine's forward-looking stories guide investment and provide business opportunities for senior decision-makers, and each issue of Forbes magazine is a barometer of the U.S. economy, and each issue of Forbes magazine features a concise and original commentary on companies and their operators. It focuses on describing the way of thinking of corporate elites, not only on the report of news facts, but also on gaining insight into the news background, grasping dynamic information and industry trends, and deeply discussing and studying the economic environment in which enterprises operate.
In the course of more than 80 years after its establishment, Forbes has gradually established its own unique style in the continuous search in the business field, and gradually developed into a well-known international mainstream financial media group, which has created a rich list that can attract global attention every year, and the total assets of the group have exceeded one billion US dollars, and the three generations of the Forbes family have created a miracle of winning the world with a magazine, and celebrities from all walks of life are also proud of the Forbes list.
Fan Wuxian asked Fan Ting casually, "How much does it cost to enter the top 50 of Forbes at present?" β
"Isn't the top 50 a little stingy? Why do you have to be in the top 10, right? Fan Ting replied with a smile.
"Ha-" Fan Wuxian patted his head and said, "It seems that if I don't give my future little nephew a $18 billion as a meeting gift, this second uncle can't be done." β
After looking at the time, Fan was sick. I drove straight to the agreed place, and then, accompanied by the staff of the Chief's Office, I changed to the car of the Chief's Office, passed through the guard area, and came to the office of the Chief's office to receive guests.
Generally, if it is a more formal reception. If so, he will choose to be accompanied by someone and receive him in the small conference room, but obviously the chief arranged it to his office in order to show his friendliness to Fan Wuxi, so that it looks more cordial, and everyone will not feel constrained.
Fan Wuxian sat in the office for five minutes. Accompanied by the chief of staff, there were three people in total, and there were no guards.
But think about it, too, if Fan Wuxian wants to make some moves. In other words, it is useless to have twenty or thirty more guards, but on the other hand, if something really happens here, as long as Fan Wuzhi is present, the crisis can be resolved to a minimum, after all, the name of a person, the shadow of a tree, and the name of a generation of grandmasters are not called out in vain, and the strength to kill two little devils with one punch is not blown out.
Because time is precious, the chief decided to go straight to the knife, and Fan Wuzhi did not have any illness. After thinking about going around in circles a little more, the chief asked his own question, "I heard you say on the phone, probably because you discovered the conspiracy of the US side?" β
"The phone said, no. is very convenient. Fan Wuxian told what he knew, and then analyzed, "According to the current information, it can be inferred that BSA is actually an organization created by Microsoft itself, under the banner of the International Business Software Alliance to deceive Chinese mainland, so the confusion is still very strong, and as far as I know, when domestic scholars talk about piracy, many places in the data cite the data provided by BSA, which is a big problem." β
As soon as the chief heard Fan Wuxi's words, he immediately understood, he was also very experienced in the economy at the beginning, and knew how serious the impact of the statistics would be on the entire analysis and policy judgment, so he asked, "Is there a big discrepancy in the data?" β
"That's quite a big oneβ" Fan Wuxian took out the actual data shown by the investigation of foreign authorities provided by Jiang Tong with him, and then took out the data provided by the BSA for the chief's reference.
After the chief got his hands, he compared the two and found that the gap between the data was as high as dozens of times, obviously the BSA data is a big problem, and he also looked at the composition of the BSA, and he had a number in his heart.
"It seems that this BSA is really Microsoft's thug." The chief nodded, then turned his head and asked the chief of staff, "I'll talk to Wuxi, you go and verify, in the negotiation, are these data all quoted from the BSA?" β
The chief of staff agreed, and immediately took the two documents and left.
Then the chief said to the other escort, "You go get some food, I didn't eat at the banquet just now, and when I think about it for a while, I'm hungry." β
"Okay, some snacks, or rice?" The accompanying staff member asked.
"Rice, the dish is the same, make it lighter, well, you can get a fish-flavored shredded pork, let Mr. Fan eat some by the way." The chief thought for a moment and said.
"Yes." The staff made a note of it and left as well.
There were only two people left in the room, the chief and Fan Wuxi, and at this time, the chief smiled and said to Fan Wuxi, "This news is more important, the current negotiation of intellectual property rights is very tight, and it would be too much to say that the other party has done something with the data." β
Since the mid-80s, the economic and trade relations between China and the United States have developed rapidly, but at the same time, the dispute over intellectual property rights between China and the United States has also intensified. Prior to the establishment of the WTO, the legal basis for intellectual property disputes between China and the United States was Section 301 of the U.S. Trade Act, commonly known as "Section 301", and there were three disputes involving "Section 301".
The most recent dispute was three years ago, when the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) again identified China as the only priority country for that year, citing China's failure to seriously implement the 1995 U.S.-China intellectual property rights agreement and problems with intellectual property protection and related market access.
However, just before the U.S. trade sanctions came into effect, China and the United States reached a third intellectual property rights agreement, and at the same time, the U.S. Trade Representative announced that China would be removed from the list of priority countries and the trade sanctions against China would be terminated in accordance with the measures it had taken and would take to implement the 1995 U.S.-China Intellectual Property Agreement.
"Since the 70s, the new technological revolution guided by information and biotechnology has made the production links no longer confined to one country or region, but distributed on a global scale, which has provided good opportunities for the economic development of many developing countries and gradually weakened the dominant position of the United States in the global economy and trade. As a result, the U.S. domestic industry has felt tremendous competitive pressure, and the U.S. government has gradually realized that technology and technology are the biggest competitive advantages of U.S. enterprises, and has begun to set up and implement new trade barriers, such as anti-dumping, technical barriers to trade, intellectual property rights, etc., and has taken the intellectual property strategy as part of its national strategy. "The United States is not fair in the protection of intellectual property rights at home and abroad, and implements the intellectual property policy that innovation precedes protection and competition is superior to monopoly at home, but in the international arena, it one-sidedly emphasizes intellectual property protection, ignores the international public interest, one-sidedly emphasizes the identity of the intellectual property protection system, and ignores the interests of each country itself." β
Fan nodded and said that in the current Sino-US intellectual property dispute, the United States has accused China of serious piracy and counterfeiting despite China's great progress in intellectual property protection, which can't help but remind people that the United States was also one of the countries with the worst piracy in the world.
Ten years ago, the United States refused to sign the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, not because the United States had a weak awareness of protecting intellectual property rights, but because the development of its publishing industry at that time was far inferior to that of European countries such as Britain and France, and joining the "Berne Convention" was not conducive to protecting its own economic interests.
At that time, in order to compete with the Berne Convention and protect the interests of domestic publishers, the United States even concluded the Inter-American Copyright Convention with some American countries. The level of protection under the Convention is low, in particular by stipulating that certain conditions must be met for works to be protected. The above-mentioned practices of the United States have made piracy more rampant in the country. At the time, Dickens's A Christmas Carol sold for $2.5 in England and six cents in the United States because of extensive piracy.
"The purpose of protecting intellectual property rights is to promote and safeguard scientific and technological progress and socio-economic and cultural development, which means that when establishing its intellectual property system, a country or region needs to consider how to achieve the best balance between protecting the exclusive rights of rights holders and facilitating the dissemination and application of knowledge. Over-protection of intellectual property rights is not only detrimental to economic development, but also worsens the conditions for innovation, forcing innovators to focus their energies on avoiding the "landmines" of infringement rather than on innovation. At present, some American entrepreneurs have also pointed out that the US Patent Office's policy of issuing patent licenses is too lax, and even "idiots" can obtain patents for things that cannot be called patents at all, which has caused many domestic enterprises in the United States to flee one after another due to patent disputes. β
Fan Wuxian nodded and replied, "That's true." β
However, hearing that the chief was so clear about intellectual property issues, Fan Wuxian felt a little surprised, he usually thought that it was easy to be a leader, but now it doesn't seem to be an easy thing.
The two of them chatted for a while, and they both felt very speculative, naturally no one would be stupid enough to mention the matter of Shanghai, there are some things that everyone knows well, there is no need to say it, then it will be very embarrassing.
After a while, the food was also delivered, and the chief warmly invited Fan Wuxian to have lunch together, and Fan Wuxian also expressed his gratitude very happily, everyone ate happily, and this move to ease relations was considered to have achieved its goal. There are no pop-ups