Former chip research professor jailed for not disclosing Chinese patents The former director of the University of Arkansas’ High Density Electronics Center, a research facility that specialises in electronic packaging and multichip technology, has been jailed for a year for failing to disclose Chinese patents for his inventions. Professor Simon Saw-Teong Ang was in 2020 indicted for wire fraud and …
With all the precedents that have been set, and continue to be, you still hire Chinese nationals in national-security-sensitive or highly-demanding engineering posts ?
Shouldn't there be a bit more background research before hiring when the individual comes from China ?
You really bring it on yourselves sometimes.
I'm not sure that legalizing racism would get you very far. Your enemies would just have to work a bit harder and spend a bit more money to recruit nice WASPs, and then you would have a harder time spotting them. We've been through this in the Cold War with all those nice, respectable Oxbridge types that were Russian spies. And, yes, the Russians are still operating an ex USA president.
So they hire engineers on pittance and are upset it turns out they try to make money on the side?
Have they not heard of human nature?
Pay people enough, so they feel rewarded for their work and content. Then maybe rather than spending time looking where to sell their IP, they would relax with their family etc.
Engineers should also be more assertive and start unionising. There is huge imbalance between what the institutions they work for make off of their work and what they are getting paid.
"Beijing often tries to level similar allegations against other nations. But those counter-actions can sometimes fall flat:"
That's a rather odd way to put it. Beijing is far from being the only one to accuse the US of stealing technological secrets, and the US have been proven to be spying more than once, most notably on their allies.
I'd really like to see "the West", including my own government, leading by example, rather than merely blaming and pointing fingers at others for acts they themselves shamelessly commit.
https://www.capital.fr/economie-politique/espionnage-industriel-les-affaires-qui-ont-fait-trembler-l-economie-1074640
>>I'd really like to see "the West", including my own government, leading by example, rather than merely blaming and pointing fingers
Yeah, me too, but international relationships are conducted with the same logic as kindergarten fights. It is profoundly disheartening to hear heads of state using equivalents of "who smelt it dealt it" on topics such as war or human rights violations, without the least trace of irony or self conscience.
Aside from the fact that research is published in scientific journals that anyone can read, and the machines that make the chips will end up being built in China, employing someone who could later be hired by a competitor is just a fact of life.
I hope they had some better evidence of active espionage and passing secrets than a "who knows how they phrased that question" I don't have any patents slip up (last I looked, searching for patents based on author is pretty straightforward).
If you really think China is such a threat to the US... I dunno... maybe STOP MANUFACTURING ALL YOUR STUFF THERE... rather than get annoyed at Chinese people doing research in the US and then going back.
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