Last Updated: Pompeo Slams Beijing For Stealing Research And IP From Chinese Students In US US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on December 9 slammed China for stealing research and intellectual property from Chinese students studying in US universities. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on December 9 slammed China for stealing research and intellectual property from Chinese students studying in US universities. While speaking at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta, Pompeo called China’s Communist Party as the “central threat of our time” and further highlighted efforts by Chinese security services to pressure and recruit Chinese academics and students as spies. Pompeo also alleged that Beijing was targeting Chinese students studying in the United States and threatening them over perceived criticism of the communist nation.