Journalist Bill Gertz details how China steals $250 billion to $600 billion in American intellectual property annually through company purchases, visa fraud, and the Thousand Talents Program, which recruits researchers including Asian-American scientists to advance China's military and economy.
Hi, this is Dennis Prager, and this is what you missed yesterday on the show. People don't know, and I'd like you to expand on this for a moment. It's always said, but I am sure 90% of Americans don't know what this means when we speak about their theft of intellectual property. I think that's unbelievably important to explain it.
Okay, um, for decades now, again, we had this unfettered engagement policy, which by which by the way led to the loss of all the secrets on our nuclear warheads, multiple warhead technology. But from our current period, the amount of intellectual property and technology theft, and this was outlined in a White House report last year, is a staggering sum. They estimate that between $250 billion annually and $600 billion annually in American technology and intellectual property is being stolen by China. And no nation can survive when the basis of your economy is so heavily oriented towards—
How did they steal it?
Through a combination of illicit and licit means, buying up companies. Just this week I wrote a story for the Free Beacon on the arrest of a Chinese national who's part of what's known as the Thousand Talents Program. They were doing visa fraud and they were basically bringing in Chinese officials who were coming in ostensibly to do research at universities like MIT and others. And in fact, they were recruiting Asian Americans and others to go back to China and basically build up the Chinese military and civilian economy.
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