US cranks up espionage charges against ex-Googler accused of trade secrets heist A Chinese national faces a substantial stint in prison and heavy fines if found guilty of several additional charges related to economic espionage and theft of trade secrets at Google. Linwei Ding, 38, known to colleagues as Leon Ding, is accused of stealing and transmitting back to Chinese companies more than a thousand files …
Boycotting anything Chinese would be a start to get their attention.
The CCP will let as many of their citizens rot in jail as necessary as long as they what they want.
They are not the cute and cuddly nation their propaganda shows. They are hell bent on expansion in all directions and Pooh Bear with stop at nothing to gain any advantage.
Espionage, bribery, suppression of human rights, ignoring the United Nations and brutal oppression of anything opposed to them is just another typical day in Beijing.
No more despots.
Downvoting only on the first line. The West is so utterly dependent on China that it'll take absolute *decades* to wean itself off China, its 'cheap' manpower (cheap being a relative term based on the cost of manpower in some Western countries) and its raw materials. There's too much profit margin to be made to boycott China, or any of the other countries it would simply shift its manufacturing/selling to...
The majority of the second-last sentence could as well apply to the US too... or some other countries with tech manufacturing. The US ignores the UN constantly... they have a veto on anything, and if something doesn't advance the US narrative or interests, they exercise it or ignore the UN's views.
We in the West happily ignore the big bump in the carpet where whatever's been brushed under it collects... and point fingers at countries like China without any shame. Let's clean up our own acts first, shall we? We want cheap tat. We don't ask questions as to why the tat is cheap... we know it's quasi-slavery conditions in Foxconn's 'factories', we know it's child labour in places like Vietnam or Malaysia, we know it's men and women working in dangerous conditions in Bangladesh. But yet we still continue to buy the cheap tat. We continue to buy the latest shiny-shiny the minute Brand X releases one. We are *just as guilty* as a government that will whore its population out to whoever wants to make stuff there.
Neither is the UK, USA, France, Israel, Russia etc etc - Gitmo anyone? 300K dead civilians in Iraq
Govts are dirty nasty forces that revel in changing goalposts or often just blatantly ignoring the rule of law (votes for prisoners in the UK for one....)
What's the answer dear El Reg readers?
The WTO is responsible for enforcing worldwide IP rules. One answer is therefore for the world's largest economy to stop undermining the WTO at every possible opportunity, stop flaunting it's tariff rules so egregiously, and then for all members who do care about IP and free fair trade to work together to ensure there are sufficiently severe consequences and ultimately self-protection against IP theft. This should have begun about 10 years ago at the absolute latest (to be clear I'm blaming Obama as much as Trump).
Dummies Guide to Espionage: vol 1, Tradecraft.
Not exactly Bond this chap.
More of a worry that a fairly gormless prat could access and capture some rather valuable material without effective detection.
If he had been a bit more on the ball he would have been long gone and raking in buckets of lucre in the PRC.
I would have to assume the real spies are better trained and unlikely to be detected before achieving their objectives.
Certainly retrenching most of your intelligence and counter-intelligence workforce is really going to improve matters¿
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