US tells China to get off its wi-fi case

Found on The Inquirer on Wednesday, 03 March 2004
Browse Politics

The US government has sent a stiff note to the dictators in China telling them not to stop the importation of wireless equipment.

The letter, from Colin Powell, commerce secretary Don Evans and trade rep Robert Zoellick follows howling from US high tech companies which have complained about Chinese plans to make imports conform to its own home grown encryption standards.

The WSJ reports that the letter is the latest move in trade skirmishes between the US and China. China has rules which may breach World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules on free trade.

The Chinese government has a number of tweaks to WTO rules that cause foreign countries to pass through a series of import hoops.

The Journal says the US trade deficit with China currently amounts to a staggering $124 billion.

"Start buying from us again, or we will not sell out products to you anymore"? Funny, nobody in the higher ranks of politics seems to care much about the dictatorship itself, but as soon as China stops to import foreign technology they get active.