A bill that’s been introduced into the US Senate could help prevent China from intellectual property theft, including stealing agriculture technology.
Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts says the bill strengthens oversight of science and technology agreements between the two countries. “We have to make sure that we’re not potentially arming our adversaries with high-tech products that they are going to use them in a civilian way and apply it in a military way. We’ve got to have a lot of oversight on this, and it extends to agriculture as well in terms of what are providing to the Chinese?”
He tells Brownfield he hopes to avoid a similar situation from 2016.
