China’s Greatest Heist: How Beijing Stole America’s Technology with Andrew Badger

About this episode

The episode discusses how China used various strategies to steal technology from the United States.

China didn’t just compete with the United States — it harvested America’s innovation. In this episode of “Intel at the Edge” Andrew Badger joins Chip Usher to discuss The Great Heist — the story of how China used industrial espionage, talent recruitment, and a whole-of-society strategy to leapfrog the U.S. in critical technologies.

People in this episode

Host: Chip Usher

Guest: Andrew Badger

Topics covered

• industrial espionage
• technology theft
• China
• United States
• innovation
• talent recruitment

Keywords

• China
• technology theft
• industrial espionage
• innovation
• talent recruitment

Mentioned in this episode

Places: China, United States

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