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U.S. Trade-Secret Theft Prosecutions Target China and Are on the Rise

By Phillip Bantz
December 01, 2018

A lot can change in three years. Back in 2015, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping stood in the Rose Garden and announced to the world that they had reached an agreement to end state-sponsored cyberattacks to steal trade secrets.

“The question now is, 'Are words followed by actions?'” Obama said at the time.

That handshake between world economic powerhouses hasn't aged well. The U.S. and China are in the midst of an escalating trade war and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been prosecuting trade misappropriation cases against China with notable vigor as of late.

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