Coming up next month is a review of China's theft of intellectual property from the United States. This inquiry is likely to find that China, in spite of an agreement to stop hacking businesses to get information of this type, is still getting the information - just a different way. This is typical of the Chinese to agree to something, like sanctions against North Korea, then find other ways to violate those sanctions. They largely do what they want to do and ignore everyone else. It hasn't caught up to them yet, although the new White House has some people in it who understand the problem. The BBC article I linked above describes some of that.
This particular inquiry will probably focus on chip manufacturing, among other things. It is no secret that the Chinese have tried to buy or team with 16 different U.S chip makers and were successful in most of them. Once they own the company, keeping IP intact in the US is almost impossible. CFIUS stepped in on a few of these, so the extent and depth of China's actions have already been investigated. What this inquiry will do is what the previous inquiries on the aircraft industry did - show the consequences of partnering with Chinese businesses (required in China) and the penetration of subsequent state-controlled businesses into US markets. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the Congress has been on top of this for many years (the chip business penetration by Chinese companies was done by them and appears in their 2016 report to Congress) and funded most of the important work being done in the field. Why researchers are not paying more attention to what they have done is beyond me.
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