Federal Prosecutors Pursuing Criminal Case Against Huawei for Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets: Report (wsj.com)

Federal prosecutors are pursuing a criminal investigation of China's Huawei for allegedly stealing trade secrets from U.S. business partners, including the technology behind a robotic device that T-Mobile used to test smartphones, WSJ reported Wednesday. From a report: The investigation grew in part out of civil lawsuits against Huawei, including one in which a Seattle jury found Huawei liable for misappropriating robotic technology from T-Mobile's Bellevue, Wash., lab, the people familiar with the matter said. The probe is at an advanced stage and could lead to an indictment soon, they said. The link to the source article may be paywalled; here's an alternative source.

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China is a big problem

[Spy Handler]

Here's a pretty good CNBC article about Silicon Valley execs secretly agreeing with Trump's hardline stance on China. Keep in mind, SV tech execs tend to be pretty liberal and CNBC is a part of NBC News so they're well left of center as well.

"If we're ever going to do anything about China, this is the perfect time. If we're ever going to stop them from forcing our companies into dubious joint ventures that represent ridiculous technology transfers and often outright theft, this is the moment."

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[Desler]

while the Right tends to favor free trade ... so this is a case of leftists being leftists.

I didn't realize that Larry Kudlow and Trump were leftists. Guess you learn something new every day.

Re:China is a big problem

[Desler]

Sort of like expecting China to adhere to American standards on IP law?

Re:China is a big problem

[gordguide]

There's a lot of BS with respect to China and IP violations.
The vast majority of companies complaining about Chinese companies making products that violate their "IP" never bothered to patent their shit in China. It is not the Chinese government's problem to uphold US/EU patents in their own country. It's not even a problem at all.
Now, as soon as they try to import their IP violating products into a country where it's patented it becomes a problem but that's not China's problem either.

China is a signatory member of the World Trade Association.

Association members are required to enforce all IP of other association member countries, so a US Patent is effectively a China Patent as well.

Seems reasonable

[JoeyRox]

They didn't criminally prosecute the financial industry for blatant fraud that lead to the loss of trillions of dollars of wealth and almost destroyed the economy but they're going after a company for allegedly stealing the technology that drop-tests $200 smartphones.