Making a greater effort to attract top experts from around the world was listed as a priority in China’s 14th Five-Year-Plan that was just passed in the regime’s recent Two Sessions meeting in Beijing on March 11. When talking to Radio Free Asia, American-based Chinese economist Cheng Xiaonong said the new five-year plan is an extension of China’s previous “Thousand Talents Plan.” The essence is the same, both plans intend to steal foreign intellectual property and advanced technology by poaching experts from overseas. Only the new five-year plan is more aggressive. “Previously, the so-called ‘poaching’ was mainly done through spies in the field of technology. Later on, the U.S. government imposed tougher control on [spying], they thought about poaching experts, together with the technology. If you succeed in poaching experts, you naturally get the technology too,” said Cheng. He said the goal of the new 5-year plan is still in …