From Newsweek: Why Is the Pentagon Enabling China’s Theft of America’s Tech?
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Jan 22, 2024
Last month, Newsweek reported that the Department of Defense had funded a Chinese-born researcher, Song-Chun Zhu, who at the time was openly transferring sensitive technologies to Chinese institutions, including those relating to artificial intelligence with military implications.
It was just the latest sign that China’s espionage has reached crisis proportions. “The U.S. government estimates that China’s intellectual-property theft costs America as much as $500 billion a year,” wrote John Ratcliffe while serving as director of national intelligence in December 2020. He titled his Wall Street Journal piece “China Is National Security Threat No. 1.”
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Hugh Taylor
Hugh Taylor is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). In addition to editing Journal of Cyber Policy, he writes about cybersecurity, compliance and enterprise technology for such clients as Microsoft, IBM, SAP, HPE, Oracle, Google and Advanced Micro Devices. Prior to launching his freelance writing career, he served in executive roles at Microsoft, IBM and several venture-backed technology startups.