Trade Secret Theft, Industrial Espionage, and the China Threat

99The China Spy Guide and Open-Source Information

electronic military radar components to China. Kwonhwan Park, a Korean national, pled guilty to

illegally exporting Black Hawk helicopter engines to China through a Malaysian front company.

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There is no nation that engages in surreptitious illegal technology acquisition for purposes of

both commercial piracy and military advancement on a scale that approaches that of the PRC.

China is, literally, number one on the list of the United States for its engagement in espionage for the

wholesale theft of American technological secrets. As was aptly stated by Ms. Sheila Jackson Lee

in the hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, Committee

on the Judiciar ...