Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Chinese studying in America are being pressured to bring back intellectual property secrets

This is something I have wondered about: Does China expect its students who study in America to bring back stolen intellectual property? Nicole Hao reports in the Epoch Times,
U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) revealed in recent comments the extent to which the Chinese regime pressures Chinese nationals studying and working in the United States to steal intellectual property on its behalf.

During a speech on homeland security and counterterrorism given at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington D.C. on June 17, Warner revealed that Chinese spies have threatened the families of Chinese international students at U.S. schools to bring back intellectual property.

...“There are 360,000 Chinese students studying in America—literally, one out of every three [international students],” Warner said. “In many of these universities, this is a revenue source that the university has become addicted to.”

On the other hand, “we are currently losing $400-500 billion worth of intellectual property each year…That’s an enormous, enormous loss,” Warner said. According to a 2017 report by the National Bureau of Asian Research, IP theft costs the U.S. economy between $225 billion and $600 billion in losses per year.

...Warner added that the Chinese regime has aggressively developed cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, AI, and quantum computing, and other advanced technologies for its own interests, including building a surveillance state to monitor its own citizens.

Now the Chinese authorities are trying to export these technologies abroad.

“Increasingly they are offering this technology-driven repressive-state model to regimes like in Pakistan, Ethiopia, Venezuela, and elsewhere,” Warner said.
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