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China employs its Thousand Talents Program (“TTP”) to recruit overseas academic and scientific talent to work in China by promising research funding from the Chinese government and, occasionally, compensation. TTP has drawn increased scrutiny from the U.S. government, specifically the FBI and the Department of Justice, over purported concerns of intellectual property theft or espionage. However, a closer review of the actual charges brought to date by these government agencies reveals the crux of the matter has related to disclosures. Regardless of the motivation, these agencies are actively investigating professors, academics, researchers, and scientists associated with the controversial program.
In many ways, China s quest to innovate and develop emerging technologies is not new. In the early 1980s, Jiang Zemin, the future president and then-Minister of the Electronics Ministry, stressed the need for China to catch up with its more advanced counterparts in information technology, which he deemed the strategic high ground in international competition. Major policies since then, such as the National Medium- and Long-Term Program for Science and Technology Development and China s Twelfth and Thirteenth Five-Year Plans have responded to this need to enhance China s technological capabilities. Calls in these plans for promoting indigenous innovation, leapfrogging in priority fields, and developing “strategic emerging industries, among other tasks, reflect some of the main goals outlined in the draft Fourteenth Five-Year Plan.
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