In a budget hearing at the US House of Representatives, Robert Zoellick, the US Trade Representative, reportedly said that many US companies might be reluctant to complain to Beijing directly for fear of causing problems for their own operations in China.

The Federal government is not so shy, he said, he said, and is unwilling to let China off the hook. Chinese counterfeiters are believed to have ripped off everything from software to movies to technology designs.

This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire