Chinese Spies, Thieve: and Hackers: Two Cases Expose China's Campaign To Steal America's Trade Secrets

摘要

Why spend millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours on research and development of a product, when for a fraction of the cost you can simply spy on and steal what another company has produced? And that is what the theft of trade secrets and economic espionage is all about. On October 12, 2018, the U.S. Justice Department announced that a Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) intelligence officer, Yanjun Xu, aka Qu Hui, and aka Zhang Hui, was arrested and charged with a four-count indictment of conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and theft of trade secrets from several aviation and aerospace companies.