China can’t quit. We have yet another theft of US technology by a Chinese company, and the length of the list of stolen products just continues to grow. I don’t pay as much attention to these cases anymore because there are so many of them and they are in different sectors. The theft is both broad and deep.
This one is summarized in a press release by the Justice Department and involves something called syntactic foam - “Syntactic foam is a class of material created using pre-formed hollow spheres (commonly made of glass, ceramic, polymer or even metal) bound together with a polymer. The “syntactic” portion refers to the ordered structure provided by the hollow spheres. The “foam” term relates to the cellular nature of the material. Thanks to its unique properties of high strength at low density, syntactic foam has become widely used in subsea buoyancy applications.” See What is Syntactic Foam
The names and companies in these cases are blurred by the number and breath of the thefts of technology. The Chinese have stated goals for certain areas of technology in the 2025 initiatives, but they are not limited to those areas, nor have they stopped stealing. About the only difference is the use of naturalized US citizens who have better access to a wider list of things that can be stolen.
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