Innovation Race vs China, Will We Win?

While the U.S. competition with communist China on the economic, military, and diplomatic fronts plays out on the front pages of the world’s newspapers, we’re in another competition with Beijing that’s only covered in the back pages, if at all – our competition with Beijing on the intellectual property front. And if our government fails to recognize and acknowledge that, and address that competition properly by taking corrective action soon, the era of American domination will end.That’s the stark warning of a new, award-winning documentary, “Innovation Race: There Is No Prize for Second Place.”China expert Gordon Chang lays out the stakes of this under-the-radar competition simply: “This is a race we cannot afford to lose,” he says, “because we’re not going to have a country if we lose.”For decades, communist China has simply stolen U.S. intellectual property. Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, III (USAF Ret.), explains that the Department of Justice has valued the loss of American intellectual property to Chinese theft at approximately $600 billion per year – what FBI Director Christopher Wray has declared as “the largest transfer of wealth in human history.”Communist China doesn’t confine itself to outright theft. Forced technology transfer is also a feature of doing business there. Explains Adam Mossoff, professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, “If you want to do business in China, you can’t do business directly in China as a U.S. company … you have to work through a Chinese company. And …