"The semiconductor industry is one of the key forces of a country."- spy suspect

6-7-19  The PowerPoint presentation marked "confidential" was striking.  Analyzes of the latest models of Japanese and American air-to-air missiles.  Details on the F-35 fighter, the future aircraft of several NATO nations, including Canada.  Photos of military satellites, naval combat systems, missile defense shields:  all the most sophisticated war machines of the United States and its allies.  Then, plans for a gigantic factory in China where were to be produced integrated circuits, or chips, capable of competing with all this technology.  At the bottom the name of Professor Ishiang Shih, a semiconductor specialist who was then stationed at McGill University, and that of his brother, Yi-Chi Shih, an expert from the same field located in California.  And a clear message: "The semiconductor industry is one of the key forces of a country.  Our plan is to bridge the gap of China's capabilities. "...

  US investigators say

the two brothers had the support of Beijing, which financed the operation and held a significant part of their business, through research and development paraphernalia of the Chinese People's Liberation Army....The resident of Brossard has received more than half a million dollars, alone or as part of group projects, from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. The official records show that the money was paid to him between 2009 and 2014, when his projects in China were in full swing, according to the FBI....

  Charges were laid against him in California and the United States formally requested his extradition to the Department of Justice Canada on October 10, 2018.  Eight months later the request is still "under review" and Ishiang Shih has not been arrested yet....

  "Unfortunately, it does not surprise me," says Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former China official at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada's counter-intelligence agency.   "There is a very great laxity of the government agencies.  Many do not do CSIS checks, and even if they do, it takes a lot of time and we do not tell them much. "

  Canada is a target for Chinese espionage because it has advanced technological expertise, but also because it sits "at the table" with major powers in the G7, NATO, G20 according to Mr. Juneau-Katsuya.   "We have secrets to protect ourselves, but also the secrets of others," he says, citing the case of the Space Agency, which is closely linked to NASA...."Hostile countries are attacking companies or universities working in the field of new technologies, that is, the kind of breakthrough discoveries that can generate huge profits.  Many of these technologies have dual uses, in that they can serve a country's military or economic interests or security interests,  We are world leaders in many sectors.  We have powerful allies with whom we have close economic, security and defense ties.  Our country is rich and very developed.  That's what makes us a target.  In short a lot of people want to have what we have," he concluded. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/201906/07/01-5229188-des-subventions-dottawa-pour-un-espion-chinois.php&prev=search
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