56 Trade Secret Theft, Industrial Espionage, and the China Threat
• Corporations set up by PRC nationals overseas to conduct technology acquisition and
transfer
• Corporations set up to covertly acquire technology for an intelligence service, corporation,
or institute
• Corporations set up by a PRC intelligence service, corporation, or institute solely to give
cover to professional or non-professional agents who enter the United States to gather tech-
nology or for other purposes
• Corporations set up by a PRC intelligence service to launder money
• Corporations set up by a PRC intelligence service to raise capital to fund intelligence
operations
• Corporations set up by a PRC individual to hide, accumulate, or raise