Chinese Espionage Cited As Top Risk To U.S. Technology Industry

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission claims espionage is used to save China the time and cost of researching and developing its own advanced technologies.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
November 19, 2007 04:30 PM


In its 2007 Report to Congress, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) calls Chinese espionage the top threat to U.S. technology.
"Chinese espionage activities in the United States are so extensive that they comprise the single greatest risk to the security of American technologies," states a USCC summary of the report.

Espionage, the report suggests, saves China the time and cost of researching and developing advanced technologies.

The final report is being printed and should be available online and in paper later this week, according to a USCC spokesperson. It elaborates on both positive and negative aspects of the United States' relationship with China.

In draft remarks prepared for the report's presentation to Congress, Carolyn Bartholomew, chairman of the USCC, cited good news in China's constructive engagement with North Korea, its assistance to U.N. peacekeeping forces in Sudan, and its leaders' acknowledgement of environmental problems.

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Besides, I thought we already gave all that stuff to China. You know, when we moved our industrial capacity there.

American corporations are falling all over themselves pimping off technology jobs to the lowest bidders and communism is quite welcome.