AFP report: "US cites China's 'troubling trend' of innovation barriers"

WASHINGTON — The United States voiced concern Wednesday that China has erected new hurdles to foreign innovation, in an annual report to Congress on foreign trade barriers.
"A troubling trend that has emerged... is China's willingness to encourage domestic or 'indigenous' innovation at the cost of foreign innovation and technologies," said the report submitted by US Trade Representative Ron Kirk.

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hNjjurfHtzIU8GwgF7L9bP1EoGew, April 1, 2010