America and China are in a long-running dispute over trade and technology. The US has added sites operated by Chinese technology giants Alibaba and Tencent to its “Notorious Markets List” of businesses it believes are involved with trading counterfeit goods. It called the sites “two significant China-based online markets that reportedly facilitate substantial trademark counterfeiting”. Washington and Beijing remain locked in disputes over tariffs, technology and intellectual property. Tensions between the world’s two biggest economies surfaced once again this week. Are this just trade politics ?
