News Analysis Taiwan is breaking the mold again by taking on China’s talent spies. These spies steal sensitive technologies by lurking around foreign companies and universities to hire their employees, suck them dry, and dump them. China’s state-sanctioned poachers and thieves are trying to get Taiwan’s crown jewels—its technology, especially computer chip technology—and will get thrown in prison and pay hefty fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process. The United States is also the victim of talent espionage, contributing to the loss of up to $600 billion annually of intellectual property theft by China for years. U.S. attempts to stop the theft have been unsuccessful so far. Thus, Taiwan’s tougher laws should be an example to us. A new Reuters report by Yimon Lee and Sarah Wu detail China’s talent spies and Taiwan’s strategy against them. “Taiwan’s spy catchers have launched probes into around 100 Chinese companies …