China’s communist regime is engaged in the persistent theft of American intellectual property and technologies, according to a leading U.S. diplomat.
The regime is stealing critical technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing, which will have crucial military importance in the coming years, said U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns.
“[Technology] is in many ways the heart of the competition,” Burns said at a June 7 meeting of the Global Leadership Coalition.
“All of those technologies are going to be militarized.”
Burns said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, is engaged in the “consistent and persistent theft of intellectual property” to accelerate “forced technology transfer” from the United States….