Beijing Blasts US Sanctions on 5 Chinese Firms Tied to Ex-Google Engineer
The sanctions target firms accused of backing a former Google engineer who stole thousands of pages of artificial intelligence supercomputing documents.
- On Monday, the US State Department imposed sanctions under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act on five Chinese entities linked to Linwei Ding's theft of Google trade secrets.
- These designations follow an FBI and Justice Department investigation into Ding, who a federal jury convicted in January of seven counts of trade secret theft involving artificial intelligence supercomputing technology.
- Targeted entities include Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, founded by Ding, and the venture capital firm MiraclePlus, which the State Department says provided significant financial and technological support for the theft.
- The sanctions lock down assets, curb U.S. investment, and limit credit for these firms. "Theft of trade secrets is a serious threat to US economic, foreign policy, and national security interests," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said.
- A federal judge sentenced Ding to 12 months minus a day in prison in September, though the court previously acquitted him of economic espionage charges due to insufficient evidence of government intent.
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The decision "severely undermines the legitimate rights and interests" of Chinese companies, the Minister of Commerce said, in a statement.
(Beijing=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Hyun-jung = China has strongly protested and warned of a response after the United States sanctioned five Chinese companies on charges of 'theft of trade secrets'.
Beijing blasts U.S. sanctions on 5 Chinese firms tied to ex-Google engineer
Beijing on Tuesday expressed "firm opposition" to the Trump administration's sanctions on five Chinese companies connected to a former Google engineer accused of intellectual property theft.
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