AMD invests in Shandong Province

Just go by the wayside as the west , plans on giving all its tech advantages to china for free , brilliant! 

I assume, when they have nicked all the good stuff, and undercut AMD and INTEL out of exisistence, then maybe the west will think this wasn't such a good idea

Human Rights... Piffle. 

Just how long do we plan to use a 'Human Rights' agenda to sanction the massively protectionist IP policies we continue to hold too?

Even if tomorrow China became a model Democracy, we'd find some other reason why we shouldn't condone technology transfers. So why the continual linkage between human rights and Intellectual Property concerns? Cause it sounds good. 

Much like the hulabaloo surrounding the exemption of China and India from Kyoto, we sit and think damn thats not fair that they get to pollute... However, at the same time some of us want them to be held to the same reductions as ourselves in the 'Developed' world, we wouldn't for a second countance th sharing of all of our 'Green' technology. In fact, teh push for these 'developing' nations to be included in any emissions control framework is simply another protectionist stab at the developing nations that are kicking our ass in the sectors they've been able to claw their way into. 

Simply put, if the environment was such a big deal, we'd give them all the tech insight we could to help them stem the tide of emissions, and create a non-oil based infrastructure the first time; instead of pushing them into dirty development like we endured / are enduring.

However, we won't, we want to protect and fight for every last scrap of advantage we have over them, and frankly: what choice do they have but to limit access to their most desirable resource (their consumption market) and trade upon it for tech transfers.

One look at the WTO talks will tell you just how much we care about 'fairness' when dealing with the developing world. Also, we seem to forget our own histories of Industrial development...

Do you think Industrial Revolution England, U.S, et cetera were friendly Human rights centric places of existence? NO Bloody Way!

Yet, again; we want to hold them to standards that we ourselves never had to, and that they could only achieve through the sharing of all of our lessons learned; aka technology.

So as long as we are going to sit and lord our technical supremacy over them, andnot share it to the betterment of teh common chinese, indian, somolian, etc citizen; expect their social development to perhaps more mirror our own early stages. Dirty, violent, exploitative, and reeking of state controlled daily lives. Heck. Remember, 'properly' functioning states took hundreds of years to develop... Mature democracies that we love so much sure as hell didn't happen overnight, and their creation sure as hell was not a happy cuddly love fest of 'Human Rights".