We caught Chinese technology spies RED-HANDED, claims US government Six Chinese nationals acting as university professors and graduate students have been arrested on charges of stealing wireless technology from US firms and exporting it to the Middle Kingdom. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged the group with attempting to lift intellectual property from two Silicon Valley companies …
I'm not American so obviously not concerned about American businesses. I would actually prefer if they just turn over their technology to the Chinese without so much resistance. Most of what I buy is from China anyway, so American businesses hanging on to things and kicking up a fuss just slows down progress.
PS: I just thought I'd try on a non-US point of view as an experiment to see how that would look. :)
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I never understand why these events aren't obvious and expected. Try as the do, throw as they will money at the problem, communist regimes and any other dire socialist systems all destroy the incentive to create or innovate. Without an incentive, people turn to crime. This is a constant through history. That's why I use the term China: Criminal Nation.
Dear China,
Dump your ridiculous communist government and join the creative world via a democratic, actual citizen driven government. (And NO, I'm not holding the current awful corporatocracy called the 'US government' up as any example to which to strive. Corporatocracy kills incentive in its own self-destructive way, the blithering idiots).
They're not 'acting' as university professors and the like, that's what they were doing.
As for lifting technology, this sort of thing used to be rife in technology before companies tightened up the IP agreements with their employees. Back in the good old days finding someone had lifted your presentation -- or website -- was an item of amusement and almost a complement.
The only difference in this case is that the Feds are trying to put a Cold War spin on things -- the Chinese are spies, all of them, they only exist to make the hive strong and take over the world (seriously, they're as much / even more into money than the rest of us......they saw an opportunity and exploited it......ethics, of course, being for other people).
From page 14 of the Indictment..
On May 25, 2007, WEI PANG emailed HAO ZHANG and HUISUI ZHANG suggesting a name fortheir company in the PRC, "I want to call the company 'clifbaw'. How about your names?" When HUISUI ZHANG responded by asking PANG to "explain the inside meaning," PANG replied: "China lift BAWtechnology ~ Clifbaw. haha."
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