Nei giorni in cui il presidente americano ed il presidente cinese si incontrano per discutere anche di sicurezza cibernetica New York Times e Financial Times hanno pubblicato due analisi sullo spionaggio industriale cinese (qui l’interessantissimo report della Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property).
Il New York Times, in particolare, fa riferimento ad un libro da poco pubblicato: “Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation“, il primo nel quale venga esaminata in profondità, anche in prospettiva storica, la strategia cinese per il trasferimento clandestino di tecnologie:

[…] The authors of the new book say that technology transfer is an official policy at all levels of the Communist Party and the state. It often takes place in a legal gray area, since laws governing technology transfer can be vague or nonexistent. The authors warn that the United States and other nations need to acknowledge the extent of the Chinese campaign, which they say far exceeds those of other countries and threatens American competitiveness.
“China is in a different league altogether, exceeding the international norm not just in scale, the number and variety of transfer venues, the moral agnosticism of its practitioners, and the degree of government support,” the authors, William C. Hannas, James Mulvenon and Anna B. Puglisi, said in written answers to questions. “It’s an entire mind-set.”
China’s strategies range from setting up science parks for Chinese returnees to persuading foreign companies to open research centers in China, they said. […]