{"id":35284,"date":"2018-06-20T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35284"},"modified":"2018-06-20T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:12:07","slug":"white-house-accuses-china-of-persistent-economic-espionage-and-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35284","title":{"rendered":"White House Accuses China Of &#8220;Persistent Economic Espionage And Aggression&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-20\/white-house-report-accuses-china-economic-aggression\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">White House Accuses China Of &#8220;Persistent Economic Espionage And Aggression&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1590\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1590\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>In what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-06-20\/trump-faults-china-s-economic-policy-as-threat-to-u-s-security\">Bloomberg<\/a> billed as the White House&#8217;s &#8220;latest salvo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-19\/here-are-six-ways-china-could-retaliate-trade-war-us\">in the trade war<\/a> between the world&#8217;s two largest economies&#8221;, the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FINAL-China-Technology-Report-6.18.18-PDF.pdf\">released a 35-page report<\/a> late last night fleshing out its national security concerns emanating from China&#8217;s theft of intellectual properties as well as economic policies that shield domestic Chinese companies from competition.<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FINAL-China-Technology-Report-6.18.18-PDF.pdf\">How China&#8217;s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World<\/a>&#8220;,<\/strong><\/em> accuses China of achieving its brisk economic growth through &#8220;aggressive acts, policies, and practices that fall outside of global norms and rules (collectively, &#8216;economic aggression&#8217;)&#8221; (surprisingly, not through nosebleed levels of debt issuance), before it lists two categories of said &#8220;economic aggression&#8221; that are the focus of the report; they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Acquire Key Technologies and Intellectual Property From Other Countries, Including the United States.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Capture the Emerging High-Technology Industries That Will Drive Future Economic Growth15 and Many Advancements in the Defense Industry.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The cites comments from the US intelligence community, which note that <em>&#8220;Chinese actors are the world&#8217;s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage&#8221; <\/em>and that China covets technology in key industries like &#8220;electronics, telecommunications, robotics, data services, pharmaceuticals, mobile phone services, pharmaceuticals, satellite communications and imagery and business application software.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When thefts of technology are reported, China does everything it can to stymie investigations.<strong> Indeed, economic espionage is a main focus of China&#8217;s intelligence services, and the US believes that China&#8217;s Ministry of State Security has no fewer than 50,000 intelligence officers operating abroad &#8211; and no fewer than 40,000 operating domestically.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018.06.20chinaus.JPG?itok=u5Au1SZO\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018.06.20chinaus.JPG?itok=u5Au1SZO\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018.06.20chinaus.JPG\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2018.06.20chinaus.JPG?itok=u5Au1SZO 1x\" alt=\"China\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"eeb13793-5f3e-427e-8255-d0bb6fffd95e\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report also offers details about how China violates US export-control laws by exploiting the growth in &#8220;dual-use&#8221; technologies (aka those that have civilian and military purposes). As an example, the report cites a conspiracy involving a naturalized US citizen who was born in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Accuses China Of &#8220;Persistent Economic Espionage And Aggression&#8221; In what Bloomberg billed as the White House&#8217;s &#8220;latest salvo in the trade war between the world&#8217;s two largest economies&#8221;, the Trump administration released a 35-page report late last night fleshing out its national security concerns emanating from China&#8217;s theft of intellectual properties as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[83,130,7844,5110,9937,786,805,827,877,4318],"class_list":["post-35284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-bloomberg","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-espionage","tag-tariffs","tag-technology","tag-trade","tag-united-states","tag-white-house","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35285,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284\/revisions\/35285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}