China calls US piracy claims unfounded

The US published their annual ‘piracy watch list’ last month, a list of countries ordered by the amount of piracy. China tops the list, followed by Russia and, probably surprising, Canada.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that the piracy claims are unfounded. A spokesperson of that Ministry says, in a statement published by the Chinese official news agency Xinhua, that the Chinese government has implemented anti piracy measures and that piracy receives the state’s full attention. "The involved U.S. Congress members should respect the fact and stop making groundless accusations against China.”

This statement came just before the arrival of US Secretary of State Clinton and the Treasure Secretary Greithner in China. During the visit, intellectual property, besides the artifiaclly low exchange rate for the Yuan and the Chinese trade policies, will play an important part.

25 May 2010