I went with 225 as the floor, all sources I could find pointed toward the same source (a study run by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property), which always said 225-600 billion dollars globally, citing China as the majority source of IP theft. It makes sense that China concentrates almost all IP theft: 1) the CCP has had a deliberate plan to do this since Deng Xiaoping, and Chinese courts will not react to corporate espionage on foreigners, so it’s not like you can sue them 2) China has a unique-to-it forced technology transfer clause in contracts Western companies make if they want a base in China 3) the literal military does cyber espionage on corporate targets.
At scale, it doesn’t make sense for any other country to try to do this, since often it’s genuinely much easier to just buy the thing you want instead of being unlawful and constraining your trade with the US. So I went with saying 225 billion and linking the pdf that explains a lot of this.
Makes sense. I am only quickly spot checking so I don’t have much to add to this but I appreciate the more detailed response. This does make the footnote very slightly inaccurate but eh it’s just a footnote
I searched “225” in the pdf and all 4 results seem to be saying 225 billion for IP theft (globally)? I don’t see that it is saying from China only.
Edit: the quoted sentence was part of a footnote, which has since been removed
I went with 225 as the floor, all sources I could find pointed toward the same source (a study run by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property), which always said 225-600 billion dollars globally, citing China as the majority source of IP theft. It makes sense that China concentrates almost all IP theft: 1) the CCP has had a deliberate plan to do this since Deng Xiaoping, and Chinese courts will not react to corporate espionage on foreigners, so it’s not like you can sue them 2) China has a unique-to-it forced technology transfer clause in contracts Western companies make if they want a base in China 3) the literal military does cyber espionage on corporate targets.
At scale, it doesn’t make sense for any other country to try to do this, since often it’s genuinely much easier to just buy the thing you want instead of being unlawful and constraining your trade with the US. So I went with saying 225 billion and linking the pdf that explains a lot of this.
Makes sense. I am only quickly spot checking so I don’t have much to add to this but I appreciate the more detailed response. This does make the footnote
very slightlyinaccurate but eh it’s just a footnote