China 'has taken the gloves off' in its thefts of U.S. technology secrets

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From http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-china-economic-espionage-20181116-story.html

China ‘has taken the gloves off’ in its thefts of U.S. technology secrets

By DEL QUENTIN
NOV 16, 2018
WASHINGTON


The Justice Department alleges a Chinese-backed company obtained secret technology behind Micron's DRAM chips, like the ones pictured here. (Micron Technology)

It was the great microchip heist — a stunning Chinese-backed effort that pilfered as much as $8.75 billion in patented American technology.

U.S. officials say the theft took a year to pull off and involved commercial spies, a Chinese-backed company, a Taiwanese chipmaker and employees affiliated with Micron Technology, a U.S.-based microchip behemoth.

Yet what Micron called “one of the boldest schemes of commercial espionage in recent times” is most notable because it’s not unusual.

Beijing over the last two years has significantly ramped up its swiping of commercial technology and intellectual property, from jet engines to genetically modified rice, as U.S. relations with China have grown more acrimonious under President Trump, according to U.S. officials and security experts.

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[Le Gaucher]

1. The way China sees it ... The West plundered and pillaged China

"Cutting of the Chinese Melon" - search that term , that still causes great anger and is a source of immense humiliation.

So this is payback time.

[empedocles]

2. Key phrses in the above post.

' . . . significantly ramped up its swiping . . . as US relations with China have grown more acrimonious under President Trump. . . '

[There are costs, not always obvious, to most everything traitortrump does.]