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Trump’s Pushback Against China Pays off With an Important Win

| Mar. 10, 2020

China wages its campaign for global influence stealthily, partly by winning control of little-known but influential U.N. agencies. The State Department decided last summer to push back hard — and just won a potentially important victory in protecting global technology rights.

The U.S. diplomatic success came last Wednesday, when the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) voted 55 to 28 to back a U.S.-supported candidate, Daren Tang of Singapore, over China’s nominee, Wang Binying. The Chinese complained that the Americans pressured other countries to endorse the U.S. choice, and they were right.

The WIPO vote is an encouraging sign that the Trump administration is taking a more active, forward-leaning role in international organizations, rather than cede the ground to the Chinese. These organizations are especially important now, when the world is facing global problems such as the novel coronavirus and climate change.

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For Academic Citation: Ignatius, David.“Trump’s Pushback Against China Pays off With an Important Win.” The Washington Post, March 10, 2020.

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