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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:03 am Post subject: Industrial Espionage |
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"Capitalism with chinese characteristics?" Let's just call a spade a spade:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/business/global/18espionage.html?_r=1&hp
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In one case, two Silicon Valley engineers admitted to stealing secrets about computer chips, then arranging financing from Chinese government agencies to start business. In another case, a retired Boeing engineer was convicted after a search of his home found documents on United States military and space programs, as well as letters from Chinese aviation officials seeking the data.
The Justice Department lost a case involving two California engineers. The government focused on documents showing that the engineers were working with a venture capitalist in China to seek financing for a microchip business from China’s 863 program, which supports development of technologies with military applications.
But the men were arrested before they filed the grant application. The judge in the case concluded in May that the government had needed to prove that the men had “intended to confer a benefit” on China, “not receive a benefit from it.” |
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