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ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE AND TRADE SECRET THEFT CASES IN THE US
James Mulvenon
Chapter 17 summarizes and analyzes US government investigations and prosecutions of economic espionage and trade secrets thefts. It directly confronts the issue of racial bias in investigation and prosecution, first by systematically dissecting the methodological and empirical flaws of the Andrew Kim/Committee of 100 (百人会) study, “Prosecuting Chinese ‘Spies’.” The chapter then offers an alternative line of analysis, concluding that nationality, not ethnicity, is the key variable in understanding China-related technology espionage and theft of trade secrets. Finally, the chapter analyzes key commonalities in tradecraft in all cases of economic espionage or theft of ...
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