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According to sinologist Alex Joske, "California was a treasured staging ground for political influence operations and economic espionage. Its extensive united front networks, clusters of advanced technology and undeniable electoral heft make it prime territory for MSS officers. Today, the state holds the honour of having an MSS unit dedicated ...
In February 2024, Chenguang Gong, 57, of San Jose, California, was arrested on federal charges alleging he stole trade secret technologies developed for use by the United States government to detect nuclear missile launches and to track ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Gong is a former engineer at a Southern California company. [12]
In addition to traditional espionage, China partners civilian-in-name Chinese companies with American businesses to acquire technology and economic data [6] and uses cyber spying to penetrate the computer networks of U.S. businesses and government agencies, such as the 2009 Operation Aurora and the 2015 Office of Personnel Management data ...
A California man at the center of a birth tourism scheme that charged pregnant Chinese women top dollar was sentenced to more than three years in prison. A California man at the center of a birth ...
By PAUL ELIAS OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a California chemical engineer to 15 years in prison and fined him $28 million after his rare economic-espionage ...
Bridge contractor seeks to restore reputation, with lawsuit alleging industrial espionage ... R.I. Analytical is currently seeking a dismissal of the case, with a hearing on the motion scheduled ...
Industrial espionage, also known as economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage, is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security. [ 1 ] While political espionage is conducted or orchestrated by governments and is international in scope, industrial or corporate espionage is more often ...
Convicted of six counts of the espionage act for providing classified information to Wikileaks: July 30, 2013 35-year sentence, commuted (released May 17, 2017) Dongfan "Greg" Chung Chinese Convicted of economic espionage; stole trade secrets related to the US Space Shuttle program and the Delta IV rocket and provided them to China [2] July 16 ...