Top Huawei executive accused of stealing trade secrets from rival firm (US)

Telegraph ^ | 23 May, 2019 | James Cook

[cba123]

One of Huawei’s top executives has been accused of directing a scheme to steal trade secrets belonging to a US rival, as tensions with the Chinese company continued to grow.

Eric Xu, a deputy chairman of the Chinese technology firm, allegedly directed an employee to visit the competitor in 2016 while posing as a potential client, The Wall Street Journal reported.

(Please see full article at the link)

[cba123]

Trump, we really, really, have a very large problem with China.

For real.

[cba123]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/05/23/top-huawei-executive-accused-stealing-trade-secrets-rival-firm/

[PIF]

Now many of the top company officials are NOT Party members or are connected to Party members?

likely all, but it is a rhetorical question on the face of it.

[petro45acp]

“...I’m shocked...shocked I say...to think chinese would steal intellectual property from a U.S. competitor to gain an edge in any market....”

nothing pithy follows...

KYPD

[Tench_Coxe]

Back when GE still had its plastics and appliance divisions, a rival appliance maker had a rule that GE plastics reps were forbidden to be anywhere other than the common area (cafeteria).
The reason for the rule was from the experience of any new innovation that the appliance maker that the plastics people happened to see would somehow wind up on GE appliances.
Industrial espionage has been a problem for a long time.

Where it differs with China is the sheer scale.

[Mariner]

Huawei was birthed by Chinese intelligence.

[gaijin]

Virtually every Huawei exec is a uniformed member of Chinese PLA Intel.