"Xi, old buddy, ol' pal, take what you want. Together we will make China great again."
Posted on 04/24/2021 6:24:01 AM PDT by gattaca
A Chinese-born American chemist was found guilty on April 22 for her role in a scheme to steal trade secrets worth an estimated $120 million from American companies for the purpose of setting up a Chinese company that would manufacture the product for the global market. After a 12-day trial, 59-year-old You Xiaorong—also known as Shannon You—of Lansing, Michigan, was convicted of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, conspiracy to commit economic espionage, possession of stolen trade secrets, economic espionage, and wire fraud, (Snip) While working at two U.S. companies—Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia, and Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tennessee—she stole trade secrets related to BPA-free (bisphenol-A) coating technology,
The trade secrets cost nearly $120 million to develop, and were stolen from major chemical and coating companies including Akzo-Nobel, BASF, Dow Chemical, PPG, Toyochem, Sherwin Williams, and Eastman Chemical Company, prosecutors said. You’s role as a principal engineer for global research for Coca-Cola from December 2012 to August 2017 and later as a manager at Eastman Chemical Company from September 2017 to June 2018 allowed her access to these coating companies’ BPA-free technology.
You stole the trade secrets to help establish a new BPA-free coating company in China, prosecutors said. She had two co-conspirators, Liu Xiangchen, a 63-year-old man from eastern China’s Shandong Province, and an unnamed relative of Liu, according to the department. Liu, who was indicted at the same time as You in February 2019, formed the plan to bring You’s stolen technology to China, where Liu would set up and manage a firm that would develop BPA-free packaging. In return, Liu promised You an ownership share in the new company, prosecutors said.
You also found a Chinese corporate partner in Weihai Jinhong Group, which in 2017 agreed to invest 180 million yuan ($26.58 million) for the company’s production line manufacturing BPA-non-intent coating, according to a 2018 Chinese media report.
The report also said that Weihai Jinhong Group sponsored You in her application to join the “Thousand Talents Plan” in 2018, through which she was to be rewarded 3 million yuan ($443,000) from the central government, Shandong provincial government, and Weihai City government for bringing her stolen BPA-free technology to China. At the same time, the production line also received 50 million yuan ($7.4 million) in funding from those governments, the report said.
The “Thousand Talents Plan” is a Chinese-state-sponsored recruitment program designed to entice foreign experts to work in the country. This program, and other similar Chinese plans, have drawn intense scrutiny from the U.S. government over its role in facilitating the transfer of intellectual property to China.
Prosecutors said evidence, including You’s Thousand Talents application documents, presented at the trial showed You’s intention to benefit not only Weihai Jinhong Group, but also the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
This case is the latest in a raft of prosecutions targeting Chinese state-sanctioned theft of American intellectual property in recent years.
Earlier this week, a hospital researcher was sentenced to 33 months in prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets from an Ohio children’s hospital to sell in China. A university math professor was also indicted on charges in relation to failing to disclose support he was receiving from the CCP and a Chinese state-run university.
You is due to be sentenced on Nov. 1.
These cases are probably ones that were still on the books at the end of Trump’s administration. You probably won’t see any new ones against the Chicom spies from here on.
You was a traitor... and that’s not ebonics.
"Xi, old buddy, ol' pal, take what you want. Together we will make China great again."
“A Chinese-born American chemist was found guilty on April 22 for her role in a scheme to steal trade secrets worth an estimated $120 million from American companies for the purpose of setting up a Chinese company that would manufacture the product for the global market.”
And this is precisely why toxic parasitic China needs the West more than we need them. Their R and D department is the cheapest in the world. They do not create. They steal Western R and D and hammer their competitors over the head with the technology they have stolen from them. Throw their students out of Western STEM programs and research and cut off trade and see how fast they return to being an agrarian society.
If someone ismainland Chinese and the ChiComs ask them to spy for them they have a law that makes them a criminal if they refuse. Further, who knows what they would do to someone’s extended family if they refused.
Hu? They do!
Communist being communist. They steal everything they can get their hands on.
Gooks in the wire...
You stole the trade secrets to help establish a new BPA-free coating company in China,
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I did not!
Well, to a communist, since private property does not exist, they don’t call it “stealing” since it’s for the common good.
ANDY HUANG, WHO SERVES AS CORE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS, PREVIOUSLY WORKED AT CHINA TELECOM, THE NATIONAL PULSE CAN REVEAL.
China Telecom is wholly run by the Chinese government, and has been identified by the U.S. Department of Defense as having collaborated with the country’s military for over two decades.
Similarly, the Department of Justice flagged the firm for “concerns that China Telecom is vulnerable to exploitation, influence, and control by the Chinese government” and how “the nature of China Telecom’s U.S. operations” provide “opportunities for Chinese state-actors to engage in malicious cyber activity enabling economic espionage and disruption and misrouting of U.S. communications.”
Huang, who fulfills the critical technology role at Dominion, worked at the Chinese firm from 1998 to 2002. (see insert) Tasks which Huang assisted with include the “Xiamen IDC Project,” the “Xiamen Metropolitan-are broadband network,” and the “OA Intranet infrastructure reformation project.”
While the specific nature of his work on these projects is not entirely clear, Cisco, a company he worked with extensively, is responsible for upholding China’s draconian internet firewall. Huang’s LinkedIn profile displays his employer as one of his “interests.” (Excerpt) Read more at thenationalpulse.com ...
If she hurt Coke...I can’t get that upset with her.
If, as a result of her theft, Chink Cola overtakes Coca Cola in China, I’m ok with that.
Should have hired American. Oopsy
“Candor generates trust,” Biden told Xi. “Trust is the basis on which real change — constructive change — is made.”
I guess all the great woke businesses in America that are concerned about losing trade secrets it never occurs to them that they shouldn’t be hiring Chinese.
Remember, anyone that comes from China to the US for school is NOT a regular Chinese citizen. They are to a person a family member of a CCP apparatchik. They are here to in-bed themselves in our corporate & military supply chains & steal all they can.
Time to ban all Chinese students & outlaw Confucius Institutes & the ability for American Universities to accept Chinese money!
KARMA!
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