With new indictment, U.S. launches aggressive campaign to thwart China's economic attacks
Source: Washington Post
The Justice Department on Thursday unveiled a broad new initiative to combat what it says is mounting criminal economic activity by China, announcing the plan as U.S. officials charged three Taiwanese individuals and Chinese and Taiwanese companies with trade-secret theft.
Thursdays actions follow a series of moves meant to put Beijing on notice. The Trump administration has prioritized countering threats to U.S. national and economic security as China seeks to supplant the United States as the worlds dominant economic power. The administration already has imposed tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods, and since September federal prosecutors have brought charges in three intellectual property theft cases allegedly involving Chinese spies and hackers.
Chinese economic espionage against the United States has been increasing and it has been increasing rapidly, said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Enough is enough. Were not going to take it anymore.
Under the initiative, Sessions said, the department will aggressively pursue trade-secret theft cases, and develop a strategy to identify researchers and defense industry employees whove been co-opted by Chinese agents to transfer technology to China, Sessions said.
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iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)Is a fkn moron
SergeStorms
(18,898 posts)for the consumer celebration of the mythical son of god. The MAGATs will be happy to pay out of their noses for x-mas gifts though, because their cult hero has put all of this economic dumbfuckery in motion. You see, "trade wars are easy to win", or so sayeth the orange anus in the Oval Office. Framers are ecstatic about going broke and losing their farms, just as long as the orange anus gets to make a senseless point. The MAGATs won't be able to purchase many more MAGAT hats and shirts for x-mas because all of the orange anus's overpriced crap is manufactured in China, but that's OK. The cult leader knows best. The cult leader is never wrong, just ask him.