The vice president of the United States said that ＂China’ stole’ American technology＂ and Hua Chunying responded with four ＂mistakes＂.

CCTV News:On July 18, 2018, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying held a regular press conference. A reporter asked: According to the White House website, US Vice President Burns said in his speech that in all industries, the tariffs imposed by China on American goods are three times that imposed by the United States on China goods, and the United States will take tough measures to prevent China from "stealing" technology. If China refuses fair trade and continues to retaliate against the United States, the United States will not back down. What is China’s response to this?

Hua Chunying:A few days ago, the statement of the Ministry of Commerce of China has systematically and clearly clarified China’s relevant position. Since American officials have also mentioned the so-called tariffs, fairness, "theft" and retaliation in Sino-US economic and trade relations, I can briefly respond to several points:

First, in all industries, China’s tariff on the United States is three times that on China? Wrong! Take automobile tariffs as an example. The import tax rate of passenger cars in the United States is 2.5%, but the import tax rate of trucks is 25%, while the tariff of imported automobile parts in China is only 10%, which has recently dropped to 6%.

Second, China refuses fair trade? Wrong! China has always advocated fair trade. But fairness can’t talk to itself, and it can’t set standards completely according to its own interests and needs. China is promoting a new round of opening up and will continue to strive to create an open, transparent, fair and predictable business environment. The United States, on the other hand, is making all kinds of excuses and even abusing absurd reasons such as "national security" to create all kinds of obstacles and restrictions on the normal investment and business activities of China enterprises in the United States. China is opening the door, and the United States is closing the door. Who is right and who is wrong is clear at a glance.

Third, China "stole" American intellectual property rights? Wrong! The US slanders China for "stealing" intellectual property rights, which is a serious distortion of history and reality. China is firmly implementing the strategy of innovation-driven development. China’s innovation achievements are not based on stealing or robbing, but on the wisdom and sweat of more than 1.3 billion people in China. Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary, made a fair remark: China’s enterprises are in a leading position in technology, which is not the result of "stealing" American technology, but originated from China’s excellent scientists in the field of basic science and the education system that values talents and pays attention to science. I suggest that those egotistical people in the United States might as well read the History of Science and Technology in China by Mr. Needham, a famous British historian.

Fourth, if China continues to retaliate, the United States will not back down? Wrong! The correct statement should be that if the United States continues to be willful, countries around the world will fight back more resolutely and forcefully. This is a dispute between unilateralism and multilateralism, protectionism and free trade, power and rules initiated by the United States. It is the strong consensus and determination of the international community to resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests and safeguard multilateral trade rules and systems. If the United States continues to cling to the hegemonic logic of "the United States is right to attack people, and other countries defend themselves unreasonably", it will only go further and further on the wrong road of being alone.