U.S.-China unveils excitement in the Secretary-General's election of the World Intellectual Property Organization March 6 5:11
A Singaporean candidate was defeated by a Chinese candidate in an election to determine the next top of the United Nations specialized agency, WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization. In the election, the United States opposed the election of Chinese candidates and renewed the debate in the United States and China, which had been confronted over the protection of intellectual property rights.
WIPO = The election of the next Secretary-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization will be held on Wednesday by a committee of 83 of the member states, and the final ballot will be conducted by Singapore Patent Office Secretary Darren Tan and WIPO. It was a fight by Chinese Deputy Secretary-General Wang Ji Yin.
As a result of the voting, Tan won 55 votes, almost twice as much as Wang's 28 votes.
The Secretary-General's term of office is six years, and Mr. Tan will be formally approved at a general meeting in May and will take office in October. Over the Secretary-General's election, the U.S. ambassador opposed Wang's election last week in an interview with a news agency saying, "I'd like to come from a country with a long history of protecting intellectual property rights." , He said, in favor of Tan.
The US and Chinese governments, which are continuing trade negotiations, signed a first-stage agreement in January, which included efforts to protect intellectual property rights. The excitement of the two countries over has been exposed again.