[Rudder]

The FBI is investigating, but what might really help is Google's example catching on. Dozens of firms are known to have been similarly mugged, including GE, Morgan Stanley and Disney. But most remain mum, fearing to antagonize China. Nothing could be better calculated to make sure the problem gets worse—as the world should have learned from a highly relevant precedent, the epidemic of high seas piracy in and around Southern China in the mid-1990s.

Were profiteering Chinese military officials behind the sea raids?

There's more: click it and read it.

[Rudder]

Another excerpt:
Mr. Ellen's comments appeared to break the dam of silence.
Hong Kong, then a British colony, had amassed the evidence but had been reluctant to publicize it in the run-up to the colony's fraught return to mainland sovereignty.
Now it wasn't, detailing nearly 50 cases in an 18-month period, right down to the serial numbers of the Chinese military vessels involved in piracy attacks.

Some of the attacks were so brazen—like the Alicia Star, whose cargo of cigarettes was unloaded on Hainan Island and the ship itself sold for the benefit of the Hainan government—that Beijing tried to pass them off as legitimate "anti-smuggling exercises."
Others hinted frightfully at a mainland bordering on anarchy.
A missing Australian freighter was eventually tracked to a Chinese salvage yard after a wrecking crew discovered, in a sealed storage locker, the remains of 10 seamen who had been doused with gasoline and burned alive.

The plot thickens...

[Cringing Negativism Network]

For starters:

Stop funding our next adversary. Never before in world history has such a powerful nation as America, willingly handed their power to a larger rival.

It is suicidal folly, for America to continue this path. On this, Trump was completely, totally correct.

Tariffs now.