DOBBS: Three thousand front companies we know of, Chinese front companies, trying to [...]]]> Lou Dobbs has been blowing the whistle on Chinese spies operating in the US since at least 2007 that I know of. On his April 2, 2007, CNN show, Dobbs remarked about Chinese spy Chi Mak and the government behind the espionage:

DOBBS: Three thousand front companies we know of, Chinese front companies, trying to steal American industrial secrets, in addition to the effort to steal U.S. technology.

Now, what I find particularly galling about this is that the president of the United States and neither the House speaker nor the leader of the Senate, is addressing this issue publicly. And everyone knows it’s going on. We’re reporting it on this broadcast.

It’s incredible.

On Wednesday, Lou Dobbs was still the diligent watchdog, reporting the news that 10 Chinese spies have been charged with hacking US companies trying to steal jet engine technology. “It’s only now that we’re beginning to take action against them,” he observed.

Red China seems not to have changed that much at the core.

One very open doorway for stealing US knowledge is through the universities:

Chinese military researchers exploit western universities, FT.com, October 28, 2018

Study shows US and UK scientists aiding high-tech progress for People’s Liberation Army

China has sent thousands of scientists affiliated with its armed forces to western universities — especially in countries that share intelligence with the US — and is building a web of research collaboration that could boost Beijing’s military technology development.

About 2,500 researchers from Chinese military universities spent time at foreign universities — led by the US and UK — over the past decade, and many hid their military affiliations, according to a new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), a think-tank partly funded by Australia’s department of defence. (Cont.)

A CNN article about the Chinese military infiltration remarked that these activities are described as “picking flowers in foreign lands to make honey in China.”