solar cell manufacturer to survive competition from China’s - at one point - highly subsidized solar industry.įirst Solar uses a specialized technology for its solar panels that Chinese companies do not have and are, he said, trying to acquire one way or another. He’s CEO of First Solar, the only large-scale U.S. That has been plain to see for Mark Widmar. “The Chinese government is using all instruments of national power, from espionage to legal acquisitions and joint ventures to acquire specific technologies, so they can be the world leaders in those technologies,” Orlando said, adding that China’s government will use whatever means necessary - legal and illegal. These include technologies upon which the industries and wealth generators of the future depend, like artificial intelligence, quantum information systems, biotech, semiconductors and autonomous systems. “China has a number of national plans, which include Made in China 2025 and their 14th five-year plan, which lists about 10 technologies that they are seeking to dominate in,” he said. “And it is most certainly guided by the Chinese government,” said Michael Orlando, acting director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, a government agency that focuses on threats from foreign powers. The list of victims is long: solar and steel companies, makers of computer chips and airplanes, labs doing COVID-19 research, health care companies, universities - it goes on and on. prosecutors have been accusing Chinese spies of stealing trade secrets for years.
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to stand trial for espionage, according to the Department of Justice. Xu is the first Chinese intelligence officer extradited to the U.S. Xu’s purpose, intelligence officials say, was to hand that technology over to a Chinese company that the Chinese government hopes could rival Airbus and Boeing. aviation company by extracting information from an employee. government charged him with trying to steal sensitive engine technology from a U.S.
Chinese intelligence officer Yanjun Xu is awaiting sentencing in federal court after he was convicted of attempted theft of trade secrets and economic espionage last month.
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