China's Quest for Foreign Technology

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JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA

William C. Hannas and Huey-Meei Chang

China’s technology transfer activities in Northeast Asia mimic its behavior elsewhere in the world, as chronicled in this book’s preceding chapters. The same pattern of state initiatives and diaspora support used in its dealings with the United States and Europe are evidenced in its approach to Japan and South Korea.

Ironically, many transfer techniques fielded by China were pioneered by Japan in the post-war era, and later by South Korea, during their own rise to prominence, albeit with differences in scale. And just as the United States until recently abetted China’s technological development, or turned a blind eye to the matter, so too did Japan and Korea at first welcome the ...