For reasons unknown, the Justice Department has decided to expand on their information provided about the theft of aircraft information by the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security. Most of the elaboration focuses on how and where the Chinese hacked French industries to get what they wanted. The previous announcement focused on the use of Chinese nationals who worked for the companies to steal the information, so that part may have been overstated in the original. The article quotes John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security saying this was the third time since September that representatives from the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security were caught stealing and about the only difference was the method used. This one focuses on the hacking aspects, while the two others focused on the use of insider Chinese nationals who cooperated with the thefts. This is not out of the ordinary for intelligence services, though getting caught that often is. These guys are not very professional and are embarrassing China to no end. They don't need this kind of publicity for their espionage at a time when it is the stated cause of the reluctance of the US to forge an arrangement with China to settle their differences over trade.
China steals everything, but specifically those things that they do not have a technological lead. Apparently, one of those things is aircraft engines where they are stealing from the US and EU at the same time. They don't want to buy engines from us or the EU, but are willing to steal the technology so they can build them themselves. This is precisely the point of the trade disputes with the US and should be the point of the same kind of dissatisfaction with the EU and China. Why don't we see that?
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