China

If the Starmer government thinks for one minute that the PRC will allow the UK to expand exports of anything with any real strategic importance, it is gravely mistaken. It’s time for competitive realism.

In 2023, the United States invested about $175 billion in research conducted at government institutions and universities. That same year, the EU invested about $180 billion, and China about $200 billion.

Chinese e-commerce platforms are profiting from large-scale design theft that undermines independent creators on sites like Etsy. U.S. policymakers should respond with stronger IP enforcement and trade regulations to protect the American creative economy.

In Law360, Eli Clemens argues that international anti-counterfeiting efforts must directly confront China’s central role in the counterfeit trade, or risk rendering global enforcement guidelines ineffective.

China listed 7,100 clinical trials in 2024, while the United States held 6,000.

Eli Clemens spoke at a stakeholder roundtable discussion hosted by the OECD and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Clemens urged the OECD to confront China's role as the main source of counterfeit goods in global ecommerce.

The Trump administration’s “MFN” drug-price proposal would pose a far greater threat to U.S. biopharma innovation than the Inflation Reduction Act, because unlike the IRA’s selective list, MFN could apply across virtually every medicine, multiplying the deleterious impact.

Chinese advanced industries may not have U.S. market access after the trade war, but they will have the rest of the world’s. American companies will be left with the scraps of the U.S. market. Scale will determine the winner.

China’s new “minor mode” gives parents customizable tools to manage children’s online activity—offering a rare, less-restrictive model within China’s otherwise authoritarian digital policy that the U.S. can draw from while maintaining democratic values.

ITIF offered comments on evidence the UK government should draw on; short- and long-term objectives for the UK-China relationship; areas to engage with China, and areas to draw red lines; how engagement could affect other alliances; and how to assess dependencies on China while strengthening security and resilience.