Posted on 08/31/2018 1:10:20 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
One of the world's leading biochemists pleaded guilty Friday to stealing proprietary information potentially worth millions from a GlaxoSmithKline research facility in Montgomery County to help a Chinese company launched with financial backing from that nation's government. Yu Xue, 48, told a federal judge in Philadelphia that she pilfered promising cancer research she had developed while working for the British pharmaceutical giant's Upper Merion Township location between 2006 and 2016. She had hoped to market the potentially ground-breaking therapies through a business she set up in China with two other co-defendants. The case is the latest in a string of recent prosecutions of Chinese American scientists accused of purloining trade secrets from U.S. companies in hopes of bolstering China's competitive edge
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This is how China makes technological “progress.”
I am SURROUNDED by Chinese foreign nationals having ANCHOR BABIES all around me and I see NOTHING IS BEING DONE ABOUT IT EITHER.
Oh, and WHAT ABOUT BRUCE OHR????
Stole Noodles from the Japanese ,probably ,LOL
It sure doesn’t invent anything else on its own
Ok, maybe chopstix
Perhaps US tech companies should do Chinese incorporation checks on their Chinese employees entrusted with trade secrets if it is legal to do so.
Perhaps the lie detector has a future too.
Tuition:
You get smarter, but have to pay.
GSK just paid some tuition.
Did they get smarter?
I have my doubts.
Defense contractors DO THIS A LOT.
Who in their right mind would expose their technological secrets to chinese nationals in their company.
Back from when I was in the USA:
**stem cell company name redacted** let me go, I needed a job.
Right over the San Mateo bridge (sort of a marsh, with a huge bottling plant) there was a tiny China outfit doing stem cell stuff.
Applied, got called in, interviewed.
The Chinese lady interviewing me had been at UCSF, we started rapping all about UCSF. I was describing the work of an amazing lab I’d often visit, I knew a nice guy from Japan there.
I described their new culture technique in general terms:
The interviewer (from China) whipped out her pen, hovered it over paper and told me to tell her the COMPONENTS OF THEIR SERUM..!
By serum I mean the “cooking recipe” of what goes into the liquid that they use to culture their cells —incredibly valuable info.
Can you believe that..?
I mean with the pen and everything, ready to copy, not batting an eyelash.
It’s like they equate copywatches or Polo shirts to life-saving therapies —to them, the same, equally fair game.
I was amazed, and everywhere I later recounted that there was 100% outrage paired with 0% surprise.
“Who in their right mind would expose their technological secrets to chinese nationals in their company.”
US employment law doesn’t allow for discrimination based on national origin.
The Chinese are a large part of the tech workforce.
I think strong incentive plans need to be developed so researchers will not even bother to try to set up their own companies - say a 3% royalty on gross sales for key inventors of an FDA breakthrough drug, shared if need be.
1.4 billion people and they can’t come up with an original idea.
VISIBLE light spectrum signature reduction —AKA “INVISIBILITY CLOAK”. Yeah like Harry Potter:
Some US guy came up with the original tech, ground-breaking, big-ticket stuff.
He took on a bright Chinese PhD candidate to help him with his research.
Guy gets his PhD finally, I think it was Carnegie Mellon, goes back to China.
Some FBI suddenly shows up at the original US lab with the white old guy, agent starts talking to the boss about it:
“Did he ever tell you anything about his intention to go private with your research, back in China..?”
Which, it turns out, he had done; had taken the first opportunity to take the know-how private, in a private Chinese company.
I mean before there was even a US private company making a product.
AND all the Signals Intercept stuff —to the extent that can be disclosed— suggests that his China sponsorship for him going over the the USA in the first place had had that goal:
To target this guy’s lab.
That this American guy with incredibly valuable, taxypayer-provided military tech was held up as a technical espionage target, and that China had gotten it all.
Which they did and have now.
The Russians and Chinese both engage in birth tourism. It is not a stretch to think their intelligence agencies are going to use the program to plant and groom spies.
Maybe she is an H1B employee, so GSK just figures a little international espionage is a fair price to pay for saving $50,000 per year over an American employees paycheck.
Bump
Our was born in New Jersey, but yeah, I get your point.
what’s the fuss? All she wanted was to break her NDA and get her life back so she could tell her story and profit from it.
The Chinese are a large part of the tech workforce.
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Are you saying chinese citizens are a large part of the tech workforce?
citizens=nationals
The person in this article is described as a chinese national. I took that to mean he is a chinese citizen.
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