點解美國捉到幾個共賊都判得咁輕？

[恆智德]

先幾日（7月7日）FBI局長Christopher Wray向Hudson Institute演講，題目係《中國政府和中共對美國經濟和國家安全的威脅》（The Threat Posed by the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist Party to the Economic and National Security of the United States）。

演講提到中共通過商業間諜同華人學者來偷竊美國先進技術。
其中幾個人，據說都對美國公司造成重大損失，所竊取嘅商業秘密甚至價值成十億美金。

其中特別提到下面幾個「商業間諜」：

1. Hongjin Tan，中國公民，持有綠卡，申請中國千人計劃，從前雇主——Oklahoma州某汽油公司竊取價值超過十億嘅商業秘密，已罪成入獄

Take the case of scientist Hongjin Tan, for example, a Chinese national and American lawful permanent resident. He applied to China’s Thousand Talents Program and stole more than $1 billion—that’s with a “b”—worth of trade secrets from his former employer, an Oklahoma-based petroleum company, and got caught. A few months ago, he was convicted and sent to prison.

2. Shan Shi，德州科研人員，偷取複合泡沫塑料，準備聯手中國國企壟斷市場

Shan Shi, a Texas-based scientist, also sentenced to prison earlier this year. Shi stole trade secrets regarding syntactic foam, an important naval technology used in submarines. Shi, too, had applied to China’s Thousand Talents Program, and specifically pledged to “digest” and “absorb” the relevant technology in the United States. He did this on behalf of Chinese state-owned enterprises, which ultimately planned to put the American company out of business and take over the market.

3. Hao Zhang，從兩間美國公司竊取有關無綫設備嘅商業秘密，其中一間公司用20年所發展出來嘅技術Zhang偷去

Hao Zhang was convicted of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, and conspiracy for stealing proprietary information about wireless devices from two U.S. companies. One of those companies had spent over 20 years developing the technology Zhang stole.

[恆智德]

但上面幾條友好似都判得好輕：

1. Tan認罪，判監24個月，向前雇主賠償15萬
   https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-sentenced-stealing-trade-secrets-worth-1-billion
   認罪協議中承認未經授權下唔小心複製並下載研發資料

In his plea agreement, Tan admitted to intentionally copying and downloading the technologies’ research and development materials without authorization from his employer.

2. Shan被裁定一項密謀竊取商業機密罪，判監16個月，罰金34萬+
   https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/american-businessman-who-ran-houston-based-subsidiary-chinese-company-sentenced-prison

3. Zhang被裁定2010-15年間從兩間公司竊取技術，犯有經濟間諜同竊取商業機密罪，8月底聽判刑期，而家保釋緊（保釋金50萬）
   https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-citizen-convicted-economic-espionage-theft-trade-secrets-and-conspiracy

[恆智德]

幾個同中國合作嘅學者被捕，基本上因爲瞞報同中國合作，以及瞞報收入

1. 5月拉咗兩個，瞞報同中國合作，同時繼續拿美國funding

In May alone, we arrested both Qing Wang, a former researcher with the Cleveland Clinic who worked on molecular medicine and the genetics of cardiovascular disease, and Simon Saw-Teong Ang, a University of Arkansas scientist doing research for NASA. Both of these guys were allegedly committing fraud by concealing their participation in Chinese talent recruitment programs while accepting millions of dollars in American federal grant funding.

2. Emory University教授Xiao-Jiang Li接受中國50萬美金而無申報收入，認罪後判感化一年，補交稅款

That same month, former Emory University professor Xiao-Jiang Li pled guilty to filing a false tax return for failing to report the income he’d received through China’s Thousand Talents Program. Our investigation found that while Li was researching Huntington’s disease at Emory, he was also pocketing half a million unreported dollars from China.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-emory-university-professor-and-chinese-thousand-talents-participant-convicted-and

3. 哈佛大學化學及化學生物學系主任Charles Lieber被控虛假陳述，隱瞞渠同中國方面嘅合作。渠從武漢理工大學收受每月5萬美金補助，以及超過15萬生活補貼，仲有耗資150萬興建嘅實驗室。渠6月份拒絕認罪。

In a similar vein, Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, was indicted just last month for making false statements to federal authorities about his Thousand Talents participation. The United States has alleged that Lieber concealed from both Harvard and the NIH his position as a strategic scientist at a Chinese university—and the fact that the Chinese government was paying him, through the Wuhan Institute of Technology, a $50,000 monthly stipend, more than $150,000 in living expenses, and more than $1.5 million to establish a laboratory back in China.

[恆智德]

@恆智德 美國《科學》雜志質疑Lieber從未發表過同汽車、電池相關嘅論文或專利，但同中國嘅合作項目居然係爲電動汽車研發電池？

An affidavit outlining the charges against Lieber notes that in January 2013, he signed an agreement between Harvard and Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China. According to the affidavit, “The stated purpose of the agreement, which had a five-year effective term, was to ‘carry out advanced research and development of nanowire-based lithium ion batteries with high performance for electric vehicles.’”

In Lieber’s case, however, the battery angle poses a puzzle. That’s because a search of the titles of Lieber’s more than 400 papers and more than 75 U.S. and Chinese patents reveals no mentions of “battery,” “batteries,” “vehicle,” or “vehicles.”

[Rehk]

千人計劃同職業間諜嘅處理方法唔同？

[恆智德]

@Rehk 無證據啩
不過千人唔一定要教授，一般科研人員都可以申請

[恆智德]

有頭威無尾陣，已然無聲氣
七八月個陣南海都好似就來打得，而家就水靜鵝飛