china, chinese communist party, german businessman, intellectual property theft

U.S.-Israeli Cyber Firm Reveals ‘Massive’ Industrial Hacking Ring Backed by China

In a new development that may again provoke the simmering cold war between China and the U.S., an Israeli-American cyber security firm has warned of a substantial hacking operation said to be arranged by a Chinese-origin hacking group. It has indulged in intellectual property (IP) theft and large-scale industrial espionage activities on three continents, per ...

Max Lu

Hacking.

China’s Violations of WTO Regulations Leading to Mistrust

The WTO is a world trade rule-setting organization. It was created after the World War II trade agreement between countries like the United States and the United Kingdom to encourage economic ties and maintain a peaceful world, based on mutual values. It promotes unanimous decisions and requires all members to adhere to certain principles. On ...

Helen London

Containers on a container ship.

EU Report Names China as Top Intellectual Property Rights Offender

An EU biennial report has named China as the top offender when it comes to violating intellectual property rights (IP) in the region. According to the European Commission, the scale and size of China’s IP infringement is a hindrance to the bloc’s trademarks and patent owners’ goals. Chinese infringement of intellectual property rights Based on the ...

Max Lu

FBI's wanted Chinese hackers

Spy Threat: United States Secretly Expels Chinese Officials

For the past few years, U.S. intelligence agencies have been warning about the threat of Chinese espionage. Recently, the administration apparently expelled two Chinese Embassy officials in secret after they drove onto a military base in the state of Virginia. The last time Chinese officials were expelled by the American government was in 1987. The ...

Jack Roberts

A military base restricted entry.

China Puts Forth Candidate to Lead Intellectual Property Protection Agency

China is one of the world’s worst offenders when it comes to intellectual property (IP) theft. As such, it may come as a surprise that it nominated a candidate to head the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that administers the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). World Intellectual Property Organization appointment UDRP ...

Max Lu

Intellectual property.

Spies & Traitors: UCLA Professor Caught Selling American Tech to China

A 64-year-old former professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been found guilty of stealing microchips from an American company and selling them to the Communist Chinese. The convict, Yi-Chi Shih, faces a maximum prison term of 219 years. Jailed for theft “The Department’s China Initiative is focused on preventing and prosecuting thefts ...

Jack Roberts

The University of California, Los Angeles.

Insider Info: How Chinese Students Are Forced to Act as Spies

Mark Warner, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman, has accused Beijing of forcing Chinese students in the U.S. to act as spies, encouraging them to steal America’s technology and research. Student spies “The overwhelming number of counterintelligence cases in our country now involve Chinese nationals… The Chinese spy services are literally threatening Chinese families… If your ...

Max Lu

Chinese students at a university.

China Will Steal Your AI Tech, U.S. General Warns Google

The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, has warned Google that the Chinese regime will try to steal its AI technology and use the knowledge to advance its military ambitions. Google has an office in Beijing that focuses on Artificial Intelligence technologies. Chinese threat “This is not about me and ...

Jack Roberts