China

China: The rapid growth in China U.S. investments will be a key topic at economic and security talks on Tuesday and Wednesday between top U.S. and Chinese officials in Washington, according to Euro News. They are negotiating a bilateral investment treaty that could deepen ties between the world two largest economies even amid tensions over China military assertiveness. Largely absent from American research hubs a decade ago, Chinese firms including Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp are now using U.S. researchers to create patents ranging from new software to internet infrastructure, according to an analysis of Thomson Reuters’ global intellectual property database. Even without a treaty, China is pouring capital into U.S. research as well as buying other assets. Patented inventions by Chinese firms that involved at least one U.S. researcher roughly doubled worldwide in each of the last three years, reaching 910 in 2014. While its firms are still newcomers to investing in America and few work on the technological frontier, the Thomson Reuters data offers a glimpse of the advanced economy China aspires to build. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.