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.
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.