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Scientists at US’s top nuclear lab recruited by China to design missiles,drones
- senttoschool 4y agoOP is quite the anti-China propaganda machine at Hacker News.
- 737min 4y agoNot sure how posting mainstream news articles about the top issue in US technology and international relations qualifies as “propaganda machine”. In any case, your comment is borderline afoul of HN rules.
- senttoschool 4y agoGet a life. Stop spreading propaganda.
- netsharc 4y agoWhat's described is probably happening, but this is NBC News "reporting" (probably copy-pasting from a press release, just like yesterday's chocolate weight loss story[1]) from a company that describes itself as: > Strider is revolutionizing the way companies, universities, research institutions, and government agencies protect their innovation and compete in a new era of global strategic competition. Our trailblazing technology and intelligence solutions enable clients to proactively identify, manage, and respond to nation-state directed IP theft and supply chain vulnerabilities. (Huh, all that revolutionizing and trailblazing. Buy our trailblazing solution now before all the Chinese steal your data!). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32968529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32968529
- 737min 4y agoThat’s fair and I wouldn’t have linked that if not for other parts of the article: In 2019, a bipartisan Senate report said China’s Thousand Talents Program and similar arrangements were a vector for China to exploit U.S. research. “Through talent recruitment programs like the Thousand Talents, China pays scientists at American universities to secretly bring our knowledge and innovation back to China — including valuable, federally funded research,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a speech in 2020. “To put it bluntly, this means American taxpayers are effectively footing the bill for China’s own technological development.”