Lets be honest about the big picture. There are probably over 100,000 Chinese college students in the US today. Of this group...at least 50 percent are probably part of some technology collection agency which gets both the education and the stolen technology at the same time.
Simple scenario. Hu is at University of Florida and knows a couple of guys who are in a special project to develop internet use via electrical lines (110-voltage for those folks from Ripley). They are approaching a point where they can pass packets via a regular house electrical circuit. Hu goes in one night and downloads their 50,000 pages of tech documents. He sends it to China. Within four months, a technology group in China has the same project on their back-burner and can devote vast resources on it to finish ahead of the college kids in Florida. Hu gets a little medal and a promise of his own lab upon return. This goes on all the time.
Second scenario. Su Wong is a good looking female Chinese math student in UCLA. She gets in good with the various professors and starts collecting private data on them (their various secret affairs and such). Four years later, a little Chinese office opens near UCLA and arranges for a blonde escort type to meet the professor who now has meetings with US nuclear scientists, and a blackmail scheme starts up.
For the US to even start getting control of the situation...we'd need at least another 100k intelligence or FBI personnel and we'd have to start limiting foreign student status into the US...which the universities really don't want to do.
Good post pepsi.
"For the US to even start getting control of the situation...we'd need at least another 100k intelligence or FBI personnel and we'd have to start limiting foreign student status into the US...which the universities really don't want to do."
We don't need 100,000 agents. we just need to prohibit communist Chinese nationals from entering scientific or technical graduate schools in the US.