“The Department of Justice remains vigilant over programs such as the Thousand Talents Program that recruits professors and researchers to work for China,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Nov. 31 sentencing date for Zhang Hao may be the beginning of more to follow as investigations continue.Įarlier this month, another Chinese researcher with ties to the PLA was arrested for visa fraud after he attempted to leave the Los Angeles International Airport for Tianjin, China.FILE - Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. The Pentagon has published a list of 20 Chinese companies that are owned or controlled by China’s military. The other issues include China’s handling of the coronavirus, its move to enact legislation restricting Hong Kong, its treatment of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang province and its aggressive actions in the South China Sea.
The verdict Friday is another shim in the wedge splitting the world’s two biggest economies. The pilfered technology in this case is a method to filter out unwanted signals in mobile phones and other devices, which has become more difficult as wireless products have proliferated worldwide. The lawyers also focused on defending against the more serious espionage charges instead of the trade-secret theft allegations. A pro-China supporter holds Chinese national flag in Taipei, Aug. military information and classified information. This is not the first time that Beijing accused of stealing U.S. District Judge Edward Davila instead of a jury that the professor's work at Tianjin University (TJU), a premier technical school in China, was to advance scientific knowledge and not for the benefit of the Chinese state and the military.
Zhang’s lawyers chose to use a defense tactic that legal experts described as a “damage control” defense. Another quote from the article was, “They believe that coming to the US to study abroad or engage in scientific research is tantamount to wanting to steal U.S.He was quoted, “At this time, the US government holds a pervasive, unfair view of ethnic Chinese academics and engineers, always looking at us with the attitude of ‘guarding against thieves’.”.government had unfairly accused him and the other Chinese nationals who work or attend college in the U.S. government in May 2015 faced discrimination and “absurd” suspicions from the government that they are stealing technologies. Hao said at that time that he and six other Chinese nationals charged by the U.S.The focus of the crackdown has been Chinese scientists and engineers involved in research in the U.S.Ī 2015 article from the South China Morning Post reported on remarks Zhang Hao made to the Chinese state-run Global Times: crackdown on Chinese theft of intellectual property under the Trump administration that is a rare carryover from former President Barack Obama, Trump’s predecessor. The case is an example of the aggressive U.S. They used a shell company in the Cayman Islands to steal and sell American secrets to the Chinese government and its military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).Īccording to the court filing, Zhang faces up to 15 years in prison for economic espionage and 10 years for theft of trade secrets. His accomplice was a colleague from the University of Southern California.
Hao was arrested in 2015 when he flew to Los Angeles for a conference. On Friday, in a San Jose, California courtroom, even the COVID-19 pandemic could not stop the announcement of a guilty verdict against Chinese professor Zhang Hao for stealing trade secrets and economic espionage. presidents past and present can agree on is that selling stolen trade secrets to a country whose government is unfriendly toward the U.S. Another Chinese researcher with ties to the PLA was arrested earlier this month.His lawyers claimed his work was to advance scientific knowledge.Zhang Hao was charged with stealing intellectual property.
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