Eye on the world: Creating, not stealing

In “The best answer to commercial cybertheftThe Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board writes on a recent agreement between the United States and China “to work together to fight the theft of commercial secrets in cyberspace. The pact not only lays down a new international norm for honest and transparent competition. It also signals to countries, companies, and individuals that they must develop their own creativity—rather than steal ideas and technology from others.” As the Monitor notes, “The pact will only succeed if Chinese leaders now understand their people are quite capable of generating creative ideas, more so than stealing from others.”

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