Senate subcommittee document critical of Justice, Energy, Commerce and State Departments on China

  “American taxpayers have been unwittingly funding the rise of China’s economy and military over the last two decades,” said

 Sen. Rob Portman, Ohio Republican and chairman of the investigative subcommittee, adding that “our own federal agencies have done little to stop their actions despite being aware of China’s talent plans.”  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/18/china-used-academic-recruitment-programs-steal-us-/

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4-9-2016  Close to $300 billion and 1.2 million American jobs are lost each year to IP theft, according to the Commission on the Theft of Intellectual Property.  “When this innovation is meant to drive revenue, profit and jobs for at least 10 years, we are losing the equivalent of $5 trillion out of the U.S. economy every year to economic espionage,” said Casey Fleming, CEO of BLACKOPS Partners Corporation, in a previous interview with Epoch Times.

  BLACKOPS Partners Corporation provides intelligence and cyber strategy to the Fortune 500.  He emphasized that to understand the impact of economic theft, you need to look at the full economic life cycle of raw innovation, including trade secrets, research and development, and information for competitive advantage.

  Chinese cyberattacks are also a lot different from other cyberattacks, and this is why experts often place them under a different category.  Cybersecurity company MANDIANT wrote in 2010, “These intrusions appear to be conducted by well-funded, organized groups of attackers.  We call them the ‘Advanced Persistent Threat’—the APT—and they are not ‘hackers.’  Their motivation, techniques and tenacity are different.  They are professionals, and their success rate is impressive.”   https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-security-the-inner-workings-of-chinese-economic-espionage_1928208.html

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11-18-19   Thousand Talents Plan is closely managed by the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee’s Organization Department, which controls the assignments of more than 90 million Party officials at all levels of government.

  The US report is an important step toward understanding how U.S. tax-funded research has contributed to China’s global rise, the congressional aides said. The report was created by the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs’ Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).

  Much about the TTP was known because Chinese officials posted selected details about the program on official websites. But when U.S. officials began paying serious attention to the program in 2018, Chinese government websites deleted online references to the TTP, including a list of names of the participating scientists….

  “(the FBI) continues to lack a coordinated national outreach program to combat the threat posed by [China’s] talent recruitment plans.”  The subcommittee document was also critical of the Energy, Commerce, and State Departments.  It said that Energy officials have identified hundreds of TTP members working in positions within the department.

  State Department officials don’t “track China’s talent recruitment programs and rarely deny (less than 5 percent) visa applications of Chinese nationals with potential ties to intellectual property theft,” the report stated.  Commerce Department officials have approved significant numbers of Chinese nationals to work on sensitive U.S. technologies….FBI and other federal officials will be questioned on Nov. 19 during an open hearing of the subcommittee.   https://www.theepochtimes.com/thousands-of-us-based-scientists-sell-research-to-china-report-says_3150130.html