Abstract The literature was replete with analyses of the US and China trade threat in regard to the poor safeguarding and enforcement of intellectual property in China more than 20 years ago. The reason was China was not a part of WTO at that time. In recent years we have once more faced repeated threats of trade, this time in the form of a trade war. This essay begins by unfolding the global threat to big agencies and businesses popularly knowns as IP theft. It then explores the US-China trade war that soon turned into a tech war which is…
