China blasts U.S. notorious markets list as ‘irresponsible,’ hypocritical

The recently released U.S. “notorious markets” list, which named several online and physical markets in China as hotbeds of counterfeit goods, is “irresponsible” and hypocritical, Beijing said on Friday, arguing it did not take into account the country’s significant strides in intellectual property rights enforcement. “It is irresponsible and unobjective for the U.S. side to use ambiguous terms such as ‘allegedly’ or ‘reportedly’ to describe relevant Chinese companies in the report, which has neither conclusive evidence nor sufficient proof,” China’s...