Last year, a U.S. Department of Justice report to the Senate Intelligence Committee claimed that “from 2011-2018, more than 90% of cases alleging economic espionage by or to benefit a state involve China, and more than two-thirds of the Department’s theft of trade secrets cases have had a nexus to China.” A significant proportion of those thefts traced back to the Chinese government, and if they didn’t, they always benefited the Chinese government’s economic policies.
This investigation now suggests those thefts are often enabled by the hacked companies themselves. “In dozens of interviews with U.S. government and business representatives, officials involved in commerce with China said hacking and theft were an open secret for almost two decades, allowed to quietly continue because U.S. companies had too much money at stake to make waves.”
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