"It is part of an overall economic policy of developing China at American expense," he said. attorney general for national security, said the case was not an isolated incident. "This unprecedented extradition of a Chinese intelligence officer exposes the Chinese government's direct oversight of economic espionage against the United States," the statement quoted Bill Priestap, the FBI's assistant director for counterintelligence, as saying. It also said he made contact with experts working for the firms and recruited them to travel to China, often for the initial purpose of delivering a university presentation and paying their costs and a stipend. The indictment against Xu said he targeted aviation firms since around December 2013. GE Aviation has supplied engines for large Boeing Co and Airbus SE aircraft, and is working on a new generation of engines for commercial planes and heavy-lift military helicopters. It described another unnamed firm as "one of the world's largest aerospace firms, and a leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems," and a third as a leader in unmanned aerial vehicle technology. aerospace companies, including GE Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric Co. Department of Justice statement said Xu, a deputy division director for the State Security Department of China's Jiangsu province, targeted several U.S. "China is actively engaging in targeted and persistent intrusion attempts against multiple sectors of the economy, including biotech, defense, mining, pharmaceutical, professional services, transportation and more," said CrowdStrike Chief Technology Officer Dmitri Alperovitch.Ī U.S. intellectual property.Ĭybersecurity experts said the arrest was another sign of the escalating trade tensions between the two countries, adding they had seen increasing espionage by Beijing for business advantage. The charges come as Washington increases pressure on Beijing over its trade policies and alleged theft of U.S. ![]() The FBI called it an unprecedented extradition and said the indictment showed the direct oversight of China's government in economic espionage against the United States. The Washington Post reported he was lured to Belgium by U.S. Chinese operative Yanjun Xu was detained in Belgium in April after a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe and extradited to the United States on Tuesday.
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