Pompeo Calls Out Tech CEOs for ‘Incredulous’ Ignorance of Chinese IP Theft

Pompeo Calls Out Tech CEOs for ‘Incredulous’ Ignorance of Chinese IP Theft
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Eva Fu
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called out big tech CEOs for claiming to U.S. lawmakers that they have no firsthand knowledge of technology theft from China, adding that such ignorance would seem “incredulous.”

“They need to get out more,” he said at a Senate committee hearing on July 30, adding that such Chinese threats have gone on for decades. “The idea that anyone in the tech space could not know of what the Chinese Communist Party is attempting to steal and the cyberattacks they’re making seems incredulous to me.

Eva Fu
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Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
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