Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

How China Steals From Us

18 Apr 2025 · 0 min

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In a short dialogue from the YouTube video "How China Steals From Us," Speaker A prompts Speaker B to explain the magnitude and mechanisms of Chinese theft of American intellectual property (IP). Speaker B cites a recent White House report estimating that China steals between $250 billion and $600 billion worth of U.S. technology and IP each year. He describes how the theft occurs through both overt and covert means: large‑scale acquisition of U.S. companies, the state‑run "Thousand Talents Program," visa fraud, and the recruitment of Asian‑American researchers to transfer knowledge back to China. He also references historic losses of nuclear warhead designs, underscoring the national‑security stakes. The segment ends with a promotional plug for PragerUtopia/Free Beacon content.

People don't know, and I'd like you to expound 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. Explain it.
Mm-hmm. For decades now, again, we had this unfettered engagement policy, 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 China. How do 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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