China Will ‘Militarize’ Tech Stolen from US: Ambassador

U.S. Ambassador to China nominee Nicholas Burns attends a hearing to examine his nomination before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 20, 2021. Patrick Semansky/AP Photo, File

China’s communist regime is engaged in the persistent theft of American intellectual property and technologies, according to a leading U.S. diplomat.

The regime is stealing critical technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing, which will have crucial military importance in the coming years, said U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns.