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The US Says Chinese Spies Are Targeting Boston for Its Tech Secrets

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 10 2019, @01:20AM   
from the bullseye dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Inkstone News:

Federal officials have labeled Boston a major target of Chinese spies who are looking to steal trade and technology secrets from the US.

US Assistant Attorney General John Demers, who leads a federal force against Chinese espionage in America, said Massachusetts had become a focus of his team's work, the Associated Press reported.
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Massachusetts is home to top-ranked universities including Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It also hosts military contractors such as weapon maker Raytheon and defense system provider Mercury Systems.

As part of the China Initiative, officials said they had met with local companies and colleges last week to encourage them to bring suspected instances of espionage to the attention of federal investigators.

Lelling said the large number of Chinese nationals living in Boston also made the city a potential espionage target, but officials added that most were in the US for legitimate reasons, such as study.

Technology workers should keep a close eye on Wang?

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• Re:This is karmic blowback for Orientalism (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 18 2019, @02:10AM

  by khallow (3766) on Thursday April 18 2019, @02:10AM (#831463) Journal

  You wanna see catastrophic failure, look back to the Depression. You know, one of the reasons Glass-Steagall was passed? And guess what got repealed during the Clinton Dynasty?

  Notice what else is common then and recently with Obama, a US president who substantially messed up the US economy with business-hostile policies. And both have really slow job recoveries.

  You're an utter historical illiterate, sitting in the lap of all those who suffered and perished in the labor movements from the 1850s to the 1940s to bring you the 40 hour workweek, disability and labor laws, workers' comp, unions, and everything else that led to you being able to sit here at your computer and smack your benefactors in the face over TCP/IP across over 150 years of space-time.

  Sigh. Once again, labor power increased over that time as well. Similarly, when foreign labor started competing, labor power declined, followed by declines in labor union power and such. The workers about which you wax poetically brought a hell of a lot more than just better labor conditions. They brought modern society. Maybe you shouldn't be smacking them either?
  
  There is this interesting pause in the decline of labor power in the decade between 1990 and 2000. At that point, Japan's economic progress had stalled while China was still building up. The US economy did quite well during that time. In my view, that indicates a strong correlation between the power of labor, and the competition for that labor.
  
  That's why I continue to perceive these labor problems as temporary. Every country in the world, with the possible sole exception of North Korea, is moving towards a developed world economy. My take is that eventually we'll reach parity with almost every part of the world, maybe by 2060 (where Africa will be the last major hold out yet still progressing rapidly towards developed world status). At that point, what will stand in the way of US labor power will be its own laws. That so many people are more concerned about 40 hour work weeks than in an economy that can support 40 hour work weeks, indicates to me that the US might not do well by this time.

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