"A
Singaporean official defeated a candidate from China in a leadership
contest for the U.N.’s intellectual property body, which was swept into a
rift between Washington and Beijing over claims of Chinese theft of
technological know-how.
Daren
Tang, 47, the CEO of Singapore’s intellectual property office, won a
crucial nomination to become the next director-general of the World
Intellectual Property Organization over China’s Wang Binyang, a veteran
at the agency.
The
“coordination committee” handed a 55-28 victory to Tang in a final
round of voting that began Wednesday with five candidates vying to
replace the agency’s outgoing chief, Francis Gurry of Australia...
WIPO’s
general assembly has final say in May, but it has never rejected a
committee nominee since the 192-country agency was created in 1967."
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