DOJ: China poses serious national security threat
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(12 Dec 2018) U.S. national security officials say China's cyber threats and the theft of intellectual property from American companies pose one of the largest economic and national security challenges for the United States. Assistant Attorney General John Demers said Wednesday that the U.S., "cannot tolerate a nation that steals the fruit of our brainpower." Demers and several other officials testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee about espionage threats from China. Demers says China has shown, in some cases, that it wants to steal American technology and replicate it. He says the country's playbook is to "rob, replicate and replace." He says China's espionage activity has been "steadily increasing" in the last few years. The Justice Department has filed several charges against Chinese hackers and intelligence officials in the last few months. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c0c3f70153cad5b40e02e723bf492a5a
