‘They Choose to Steal Rather Than Innovate’: Experts Sound Alarm on China’s Theft of American IP

Deputy Attorney General Jeffery Rosen speaks to the media about charges and arrests related to a computer intrusion campaign tied to the Chinese regime by a group called APT 41 at the Department of Justice in Washington, on Sept. 16, 2020. Tasos Katopodis-Pool/Getty Images

U.S. officials have repeatedly stressed that the threat of intellectual property (IP) theft from the communist Chinese regime is one of the most important trade issues facing the country.

But at the root of the problem lies a larger issue, one that is rarely broached in public, according to Evan Anderson, CEO of INVNT/IP, a Strategic News Service initiative.