Amid growing evidence of China’s ambitions to develop advanced technology for military use, two American citizens were recently arrested on charges of scheming to steal military technology from an American company to export to China. A Canadian citizen has also been charged in relation to the scheme.
According to a press release issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Jan. 23, Yi-Chi Shih, 62, and Kiet Ahn Mai, 63, naturalized U.S. citizens from Taiwan and Vietnam respectively, had conspired to pose as domestic customers to buy computer chips from an unnamed American company, then export the chips to a Chinese company called Chengdu GaStone Technology Co.
