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US Levels Espionage Charges Against 6 Chinese Nationals
Taco Cowboy writes: The U.S. government has indicted five Chinese citizens and arrested a Chinese professor on charges of economic espionage. The government alleges that they took jobs at two small, American chipmakers — Avago Technologies and Skyworks Solutions — in order to steal microelectronics designs. "All of them worked, the indictment contends, to steal trade secrets for a type of chip popularly known as a “filter” that is used for acoustics in mobile telephones, among other purposes. They took the technology back to Tianjin University, created a joint venture company with the university to produce the chips, and soon were selling them to both the Chinese military and to commercial customers."
It's interesting to note that the Reuters article keeps mentioning how this technology — used commonly as an acoustic filter — has "military applications." It's also interesting to look at another recent case involving Shirrey Chen, a hydrologist who was mysteriously arrested on suspicion of espionage, but then abruptly cleared five months later. One can't help but wonder what's driving the U.S.'s new strategy for tackling economic espionage.
It's interesting to note that the Reuters article keeps mentioning how this technology — used commonly as an acoustic filter — has "military applications." It's also interesting to look at another recent case involving Shirrey Chen, a hydrologist who was mysteriously arrested on suspicion of espionage, but then abruptly cleared five months later. One can't help but wonder what's driving the U.S.'s new strategy for tackling economic espionage.
All german parties except of the CDU/CSU (which are "sister parties"), led by the leftists, who were created from the remaining parts of the totalitarian SED that governed the GDR, and, out of this "tradition", have a very anti-US and pro-russia position (nicely observable in the debate about ukraine), agree that this form of espionage is far too much. There has been some critical politicians before too, but now, after two years of snowden, we finally see something really moving inside political berlin. This is largely thanks to the SPD, the other party of the coalition that forms the government, which has positioned itself against espionage inside the last voting season, and, until now, mostly broken their promises in this regard. Now, thanks to them, and the pressure from the press, there is some activity at least.
In the current debate, it has turned out that the CDU/CSU has lied about a planned anti-spy treaty in order to get votes in the elections. Its seldom that you have it this crystal clear that a politician is lying.
Also, it became public that, in inter-state cooperations, where german agencies give US agencies data about terrorist suspects, the US side has requested data not just about criminals, but also about diplomats of befriended governments, including the french, which are the best buddies of the germans, and the austrians, close to germans due to history and shared language. Now the BND found out about it, and it came to the press. Now the german government (the leading CDU/CSU part) seriously first wants to ask the US agencies whether it may share those hostile and reputation-hurting requests (only the names!) with a special section of the german bundestag, which has the task to oversee germanie's secret agencies.
I'm really ashamed of my government here in this case. Germany isn't a colony. Directly after the war, where there was a high comitee of the allies that oversaw german politics and other parts of the state, this might have been understandable, but not 70 years after it.
The USA snoops on powers but doesn't hand that over to corporations.
[Proof needed]. What fucking sense does it make for the NSA to spy on Brazil's deep-ocean oil drilling technologies if not for giving that info to American* companies?
Monitoring violations of the Benthic Treaty.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
"two small, American chipmakers — Avago Technologies and Skyworks Solutions"
Avago has a market cap over 30 billion, and Skyworks is almost a 20 billion dollar company. They're not exactly garage start-ups, and everyone in the RF world recognizes them as being quite big players.