Science and technology exchanges and intellectual property disputes are the most common disturbances and white noises in world trade. Due to the intensification of hostility between China and the United States, as well as the Chinese policy department's misjudgment on the international situation, science and technology exchange and intellectual property disputes between China and the United States have been exaggerated and deteriorated to the level of national security and espionage. In some sensitive areas, they have even lost their sense and control.
Anbound tracking research and evaluation show that academic exchanges, science and technology exchanges, study visits, project cooperation, intellectual property exchanges and transactions between China and the rest of the world are likely to be disrupted and plagued by deepening hostility in the global market. Even if there are international exchange activities involving Chinese people, it may be deemed espionage-natured activities to steal technical secrets. Any project involving Chinese manufacturers and equipment is likely deemed to be using unethical methods to compete in commercial competition. In short, China has been universally and extensively stigmatized in the world of science, technology and intellectual property. This creates conditions for the large-scale intervention by non-commercial forces such as politics, public opinion, intelligence and law.
At the end of 2018, as the leading enterprise in the global communications industry, Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada, which triggered a huge impact (According to the latest report, the Canadian Ministry of Justice decided to issue an authorization promotion order for Meng Wanzhou case on March 1). Huawei has hundreds of suppliers around the world, who design and supply all the components from screws to screens. Huawei is also mainly engaged in back-end integration and assembly of communication products, where American companies account for the majority of Huawei's upstream suppliers. Among the 92 core suppliers of Huawei, 33 are in the United States. This makes the United States the top country with most suppliers in Huawei's supply chain. The fact that the United States and Canadian authorities are aware of Huawei's supplier situation but they still took decisive action against Huawei represents treacherous changes in the forthcoming situation.
In fact, the current world intelligence community is in a critical stage of transformation and adjustment. The world intelligence community has long had two big problems. First, economic intelligence and industrial intelligence are not considered to be the core tasks of the intelligence community. The scope of the national security's concept is very narrow and traditional. Just like spy film's plot, the current intelligence community only focuses on terrorism and national high-level information. Other types of information, such as economic, industry and production technology related information, are categorized as intelligence activities that are often not valued. The second problem is the world's intelligence community raises problems of its own. In this mysterious intelligence community, open source information that is publicly available will never be deemed as intelligence. The intelligence community routinely does not pay attention to public information acquisition and analysis, and is not even willing to spend money on information. As a result, intelligence practice in the world has lagged behind the development of the information society for a long time. This has caused it to encounter strong political pressure.
After Trump became the President of the United States, he launched a landmark Defense Intelligence Agency report, which defined China as the main "enemy" of the United States based on political and competitive considerations. Hence, China suddenly became the main competitor of the United States. However, as a matter of fact, unlike many countries in the world, China's degree of internationalization in history is far lower than that of Russia, European countries and America itself. Aside from its own , China has no history of conducting covert warfare on the world stage with the United States and the Western countries. The reason why China has gained the leading position in the world is that after reform and opening up, the national advantages are more concentrated in the economic field and industrial field. The status of China today is achieved through fair competition in the economy, industry, and technology.
On the other hand, the high tone of "China challenge" has forced U.S. government departments and the intelligence community to make a significant and hasty transition. They must do everything possible to curb China's strong strategic competition, economic progress and industrial progress. This is to control the outflow of science and technology to China via various public and previously unrestricted sources of information. For a period of time, various coarse and irrational decisions of intelligence, diplomacy, trade and legal operations which appear similar to wartime states appear constantly in western countries. The disputes of science, technology, and intellectual property rights have been continuously escalated followed by the tone of "unfair trade" to the "threatened the national security of the United States", and even became the top priority of the U.S. intelligence community nowadays.
Final Analysis Conclusion:
The scene of the cold war in history has once again appeared in today's field of science, technology and intellectual property. Western countries are building a virtual "Berlin Wall" in the world of information, trying to isolate China from the future information society and the intelligent world. It is expected to remain as such for a long time to come.
