China has the right to pursue its goal of high tech progress

Robert Lighthizer, trade representative of the United States, was right when he told the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday that he thinks "it's in the interests of both China and the United States to have some kind of successful agreement".

And it is always good for the world's largest and second-largest economies to resolve their differences and reach an agreement through talks.

However, such talks need to be held on an equal footing. It is improper and unreasonable for the US to assume that China's development of high technology would never have got anywhere unless it stole technologies from the US.