Where has the “Merkel Era” gone, and why have China-German relations changed so much? Recently, a friend related the shocking experience of a wealthy German businessman setting up a business in China. It may be helpful for other business people considering doing business in that communist stronghold. This is an eye-opening experience but not unusual ...
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 ...
A federal report now hints that China’s ambition to become a leader in agriculture may be risky for the U.S. The report, dubbed China a security risk, was unveiled by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC). It says the efforts made by China may endanger the U.S. in the future. China struggles to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...