Politics
China’s Thousand Talents Program Finally Gets the U.S.’s Attention
Officials are concerned about spying and intellectual-property theft.
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China’s Thousand Talents Program, an elaborate system which recruit overseas researchers to send their skills home, has the U.S. worried.
U.S. officials say TTP encourages economic espionage and theft of intellectual property, the issue at the heart of President Trump’s trade war with China. They also argue that China’s so-called military-civil fusion strategy—in which the government employs resources, technologies, and people to advance both sectors simultaneously—elevates the threat.