[Itpolicy-np] The short-cut to economic domination -- funds research based on stolen trade secrets

[Bipin Gautam]

(Source : http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/chinese-government-funds-research-based-stolen-us-trade-secrets)

China is moving on two parallel tracks to reach the coveted position
of global economic hegemony.

The first track is education. China invests heavily in its educational
system, putting special emphasis on mathematics and engineering
programs. In the United States, on the other hand, college tuition
fees rise, student loans become more difficult to obtain, the number
of math and engineering graduates in U.S. colleges and universities
decline, and high school districts are mired in expensive legal
battles over whether or not to teach evolution. Here is a short list
of the results of these trends: U.S. colleges do not graduate enough
math and engineering students to satisfy the needs of U.S. high-tech
industry, which no relies more and more on foreign nationals who come
here on work visas; Chinese scientists no publish more papers in
refereed scientific journals than their American counterparts; Chinese
researchers now register more patents for innovative inventions than
American researchers do.


The second, parallel track on which China is relentlessly moving
toward its hegemonic goals is vast, coordinated, and disciplined
campaign of theft of intellectual property: China’s sprawling
intelligence agencies work hand in hand with Chinese industry to steal
industrial secrets and intellectual property of non-Chinese companies.
Chinese leaders correctly figure that this industrial espionage
campaign nicely complements their educational effort: education is for
the long run, espionage is a short-cut to economic domination.

(CONTD...)