Former Coca-Cola Employee Convicted of Stealing $120 Million Worth of Trade Secrets to Sell in China

Epoch Times ^ | April 23, 2021 | Cathy He

[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.

[Liz]

Did the CCP FUNNEL $$$$ to Biden’s campaign through “green” groups? Is that why Biden/Harris REFUSE to condemn China?
Rep. Lance Golden / twitter | Oct 8 2020 | Rep. Lance Golden, R-TX / FR Posted on 10/8/2020, 10:11:51 AM by rintintin

Biden/Harris have never uttered a discouraging word about China.....Is it b/c the CCP is FUNNELING $$$$$ to Biden’s campaign through “green” groups.
....the @EPA is being asked to work with the DOJ to investigate possible China foreign election interference! (Excerpt) Read more at mobile.twitter.com ...

===============================

AND THIS Identifying the collusion between China and the BigTech-backed American left.
They are playing both sides against the middle, using the unemployed, drug addled casualties of these globalist forces against a diversionary straw man – America’s conservatives and middle class.

All the while China and authoritarians decry American racial division as a product of democracy, and mob behavior as the undisciplined product of delusory US freedom.

The CCP's superior “disciplined”, “benevolently controlled” system would have shut the chaos down, they claim amongst themselves. And the US’ infiltrated federal law enforcement hangs back, chasing and erecting their “white supremacist” straw men, cowed by the sellout media, letting chaos reign. How about Hong Kong and the CCP shutdown of democracy there?

[gathersnomoss]

It is simple.
KILL THE TRAITOROUS BITCH.
Otherwise, this BS continues.

[Liz]

WHYY-PBS reported U of Pennsylvania made a $100 million contribution to the Phila School District.
Is the U of Penn's donation prohibited Chinese payoffs? Is Penn getting rid of evidence to save Biden's sorry ***?
WHYY.com / / FR Posted on 12/6/2020 by Kid Shelleen

Two weeks after the U of Pennsylvania made a gargantuan $100 million contribution to the School District of Philadelphia, it’s unlikely the cash infusion will inspire copycat donations from major higher education peers in the city. When Ivy League Penn made its announcement, City Council member Helen Gym and others voiced hope that other universities with large landholdings, like Temple or Drexel, might also pony up. “I certainly hope that some of our strongest civic institutions can see beyond their individual acts of charity and generosity,” “When universities and our major nonprofits, who have long been invested in education and public health, unite on a mission to invest in our schools, we send a clear message to Harrisburg and to Washington, D.C. that we are invested in our future.” (Excerpt) Read more at whyy.org …

Biden Center Under Investigation for Illegal Donations From China
DB Daily Update | David Blackmon / FR Posted on 5/25/2020, 9:19:56 AM by EyesOfTX

If the label says “Biden,” it was definitely influenced by China. – John Solomon at JustTheNews.com is reporting that The National Legal and Policy Center has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate its findings that the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has over the past several years accepted more than $22 million in anonymous China-originated donations to its Biden Center and failed to properly disclose the contributions.

From Solomon’s report: The complaint, filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, says that over the past three years, the university has (admitted to accepting around) $22 million in anonymous funding from Chinese sources. That’s out of a total of more than $70 million from Chinese donors during that time, the NLPC said.

Those significant funds, including the anonymous amounts, rolled in after the Biden Center was announced in early 2017 and launched in February 2018. The center is located in downtown Washington, D.C. Federal records show that the University of Pennsylvania has received significant donations from Communist China since the opening of the Biden Center.

One 2018 donation alone totals $14.5 million; it is listed as “anonymous” in federal records. The NLPC alleges the university may have violated federal law in accepting those anonymous monetary donations from Communist China. The Higher Education A ct mandates schools report the national origins of any donations above $250,000 although not necessarily the individual names of donors themselves. [End]

[Mouton]

Could not happen to a better company. How is the less white working out for you all.

[chuckee]

“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.

[Liz]

CIRCA 2020 Allegations and evidence surrounding the Biden Crime Family's China business dealings;
Hunter Biden reportedly has a direct phone line to the Politburo
WJLA ^ | 10/26/2020 | Stephen Loiaconi / FR Posted on 10/26/2020, 5:41:29 PM by marcusmaximus

Documents released in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential race have shed some new light on the business dealings of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son and other relatives, but many questions remain about both the sources of the records and their relevance to Biden’s bid for the presidency.

“I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life,” Biden said during a debate with President Donald Trump.

Clearly, Biden is “COMPROMISED” by his family’s financial ties to China and other countries.

Earlier this month, emails allegedly recovered from a laptop that once belonged to Biden’s son Hunter were obtained by The New York Post. Subsequently, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, came forward to verify some of those emails and lodge his own accusations against the Bidens.-snip-

Here is what we know about Hunter Biden’s business activities and how they became intertwined with his father’s tenure as vice president and his presidential campaign.

Beginning in 2013
Dec. 2013 Hunter Biden flew to Beijing with his then-VP father, and his daughter Finnegan, on Air Force Two on official US business in China.

During the visit, Hunter met with one of his business partners, a Chinese banker named Jonathan Li. Hunter and Li were both involved with Bohai Harvest RST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co., an investment firm that was officially registered less than two weeks after Hunter’s visit.

As VP of the USA, Joe Biden later wrote a letter of recommendation for the son of Hunter's business partner, CCP banker, Jonathan Li, according to Hunter Biden laptop emails.

Journos and other US officials on the trip say they had no idea Hunter was conducting personal business in China.)

Hunter held a position on BHR’s board of directors while his father was VP and Obamas point man in China, and became a shareholder with a 10% stake in the CCP company in Oct. 2017. (NOTE That investment is now worth some $50 million.) (Excerpt) Read more at wjla.com ...

[IYAS9YAS]

Just search on “Thousand Talents” and “arrest” and see how many have already been found out. Traitors all. Almost all in the university system and almost all receiving federal grant money. I seriously think Fauci is one of them.

[bigbob]

“To each according to their needs”. China has lots of needs...

[Liz]

"So Hunter, how're all your China business deals doing?

[Grampa Dave]

So how much of Woke Coke and the other Coke products are really ChiCom substitutes loaded with a lot of poisons?

[utax]

This proves that coke is racist against asians!

[dfwgator]

Great now the Chinese have the Coca-Cola Formula.

[blueunicorn6]

Nothing like an icy cold Coke when you’re munching on General Tso’s Chicken.

[central_va]

As much as I hate China I do like Asian pilsner style beers. They are very light, crisp, clean and tasty.

[blueunicorn6]

Is this another one of your sexual innuendo jokes?

[central_va]

Is this another one of your sexual innuendo jokes?

No but tell me how do you see it that way? LOL

[blueunicorn6]

You are quite well known here on FR for your substitution of words for, well, people’s private parts.

There was that series of posts you had about musical instruments.

We all knew what you were REALLY writing about when you were describing a French Horn.

And remember the time out you received for your series of posts about National Parks of the US that was some sort of code?

“Old Faithful is a sight everyone should see!”

Yeah, sure.....

[frank ballenger]

59-year-old You Xiaorong—also known as Shannon You—

But everyone knew her as Nancy.

[frank ballenger]

Wait a minute. A chemist working for Coca-Cola?
Doing what?

I always thought everything about Coke was natural. Except “caramel color.”

[blueunicorn6]

She’ll always be Easy Ellen to the guys in the 7th Fleet.