intellectual property theft

The House Democrats’ EAGLE Act would pressure U.S. companies to hire more visa workers from China, despite the Chinese government’s use of the programs to steal technology from leading U.S. companies. 

Russia has reportedly hit on a brutally effective solution to the problem of big-name Western brands like Coca-Cola and McDonald’s pulling out after the invasion of Ukraine: simply allow Russian companies to keep using those valuable brand names without compensating the owners.

The Justice Department is ending an initiative aimed at Chinese espionage and intellectual property theft over concerns of a perception of racism.

Beijing blasted the U.S. for denying visas to Chinese students at risk of stealing intellectual property to enhance China’s military.

A Chinese computer company called Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology Co. Ltd., or “Xiao-i” for short, filed a billion-dollar lawsuit in Shanghai court against Apple, Inc. on Monday.

The Communist Party of China is using an allegedly anti-corruption police operation known as “Fox Hunt” to pressure and threaten ethnic Chinese people around the world, including some in America, to return home and face prison, FBI Director Christopher Wray alleged on Tuesday.

Harkening back to the rhetoric of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution, China’s ambassador in London has called on Chinese university students studying in the United Kingdom to “serve your motherland”, amid growing concern about the influence of Beijing on Western campuses.

A Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officer was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday while trying to leave the country with U.S. government-funded research from the University of California, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.

China’s Harbin Institute of Technology and Harbin Engineering University have been blocked from accessing MATLAB, a major science and engineering software platform, after being added to a banned entities list last week for links to the Chinese military.

A U.S. federal indictment unsealed on Thursday charged Chinese telecom giant Huawei and four of its subsidiaries with “a pattern of racketeering activity” that included stealing trade secrets from other corporations.

President Trump scored another major victory today with the signing of phase one of the China trade agreement, which further reorients the global supply chain in America’s favor.

Apple recently told a federal court that it has “deep concerns” that two Chinese-born former employees accused of stealing trade secrets may attempt to flee to the communist country before their trial if not closely monitored.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, spoke with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily about U.S. policy toward China, which she felt is needlessly and dangerously antagonizing a nuclear-armed adversary.

Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said on Friday that he and other officials will “call out” China for “foreign interference in universities” and cyberattacks used to steal intellectual properties.

Foreign states — including China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia — procure U.S. intellectual property via venture capital, explained Jim Phillips.

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that his agency has almost a thousand open investigations into intellectual property theft, almost all of them “leading back to China.”

Last week, President Trump signed an executive order effectively barring Chinese telecom giant Huawei from doing business in the United States.

Hill legislators are pushing a bill that would put roughly 70,000 Chinese visa workers on a fast track to green cards, even as White House officials are trying to slow the theft of U.S. technology by Chinese employees and researchers.

Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB), which is roughly equivalent to the American FBI, on Monday announced the arrest of six engineers who work for a Taiwanese branch of Germany’s BASF SE chemical manufacturing corporation.

China claims to be interested in free and fair “win-win” trade deals but, in reality, its economic practices have always been unfair and predatory.

Prosecutors in South Korea on Thursday announced nine indictments against employees of a company called Toptec for selling information about Samsung display technology to a Chinese firm.

German prosecutors on Thursday announced criminal charges against two Chinese-born German citizens accused of stealing data from a chemical reactor project and exploiting it for commercial gain in China.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday and agreed to strengthen bilateral relations. “We confirmed that we are cooperative partners and absolutely do not pose a threat to each other,” Abe said after the meeting.

A young Silicon Valley firm called CNEX Labs is suing China’s giant Huawei telecom company for stealing its technology, specifically solid-state drive (SSD) technology used for mass information storage.

Former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper says the freshly negotiated USMCA is a “pretty good deal” for the U.S.

China’s state-run Global Times vowed over the weekend to fight back against “insults” from U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and promised a “new Cold War” if the Trump administration forces the issue by continuing to produce “hostile reports and speeches.”

A report published on Thursday by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies warns Chinese cyber espionage is the “single greatest threat to U.S. technology,” siphoning over $300 billion per year from the U.S. economy.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders responded to news of China’s retaliatory tariffs, urging the country to instead address its unfair trading practices.