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The Patriot Post Digest 7-31-2018
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Liu stands accused of stealing intellectual property from Dr. David Smith of Duke University, where Liu graduated in 2009. Smith is one of the leading experts in a manufactured substance called metamaterials — hi-tech components that can be used for a variety of uses. One particular metamaterial that Smith has been working on for years is an invisibility cloak30, a device that can guide electromagnetic waves around an object to make it appear that the object is not there. This cloak isn’t straight out of the magical world of Harry Potter — it would not make an object or person invisible to the naked eye, but it would fool scanning and thermographic instruments. The military applications are obvious.
Liu attended Duke University from 2006 to 2009, and he was part of Smith’s research and development team. According to Smith and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi, Liu, with the help of the Chinese government, stole Smith’s cloaking technology and brought it back to China.
Smith initially believed Liu to be an enterprising student, but over time he realized that things did not seem right. Liu repeatedly broke protocol with regard to sharing and claiming credit for information about the project. He also refused to share some of his work with Smith, who was Liu’s supervisor and head of the project.
Under the guise of international collaboration, Liu talked Smith into letting Chinese researchers visit the lab. They took a lot of pictures while Smith wasn’t around and later returned to China. Liu also returned to China after receiving his degree from Duke in 2009. A year later, he founded a tech company there now valued at over $6 billion. In the lobby at headquarters is a prototype of a cloaking device very similar to the one Smith has been working on for years.
Liu categorically denies that he stole Smith’s work. But Smith and FBI investigators31 are quite confident that he did. Liu’s company and work have received generous support from the Chinese government, which may have also backed his stay at Duke. It may be the case that Liu was under Chinese government orders all along to attend an American university and gain access to important technological R&D work, preferably something with military application.
Unfortunately, Liu’s story is not unique. Thousands of foreign nationals, including those from adversarial countries like China and Russia, attend American universities all the time. They gain student visas, come to the U.S., work on important projects, and then take their knowledge back home — sometimes into the waiting arms of government officials looking to seize that intellectual property and use it to their advantage.
American colleges and universities are eager for foreign financial support and to further academic research. This approach, however, leaves them wide open to intellectual property theft by malevolent Chinese and Russian entities. Export control licenses, written agreements, and security protocols for taking part in certain research projects have been put in place in some instances to protect against more Lius.
U.S. academic institutions are at the forefront of advances in civilian and sometimes military technology. Their traditional open door policy has helped foster research and collaboration, essential in our global economy. At the same time, however, not everyone plays fair. Many of the technological advances that China boasts of have been stolen and repurposed from American universities and companies. It’s time that American higher education starts putting a tighter leash on who it allows to work on key research projects before this country’s best work ends up being used against us.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57437-a-story-of-chinas-intellectual-property-theft
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Stephen Moore: “Trump’s tariffs are meant to force other countries to lower theirs. It’s a dangerous game, for sure, because it can risk a trade war escalation — as we are now seeing with China. But Trump has always believed that the United States has the upper hand because of our massive consumer market, and that our trading partners will be forced to capitulate sooner rather than later. What is clear is that he has played the Europeans like a fiddle here. His threat of a 20 percent auto tariff scared the daylights out of the Germans. Those levies could cripple their already-struggling economy. The panic in Berlin is what drove the EU to the bargaining table. Even more masterful was how Trump got the Europeans to agree to buy more American natural gas. … I often disagree with Trump’s saber-rattling trade antics. But it’s getting harder all the time to find fault with the results. We aren’t out of the trade-war fires yet — far from it. But if Trump can solidify this deal with the Germans, the French and the rest of the EU and get a Mexico free-trade deal signed, he can then isolate China as the bad actor on the world stage and force Beijing to stop its half-trillion dollars a year of cheating and stealing.”
SHORT CUTS
Insight: “There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Brace yourselves: “I’m now 85. My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years.” —Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Not satire: “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wants 5 more years on the Supreme Court, and people are offering their organs to keep her healthy.” —Business Insider
Braying Jackass: “I’m concerned about this country, period. I think all of us should be. This is the worst moment I’ve lived in in my lifetime.” —Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
Non Compos Mentis: “I might be the only one in our little chapter that is a Christian, and it all just fits so perfectly together for me — things that I’ve always thought anyway along with my values morally and religiously. Possibly my mother would want to debate me on this, but if anyone was ever a socialist it was Jesus.” —Democratic Socialists of America’s Kelley Rose (No, he wasn’t34.)
Village Idiots: “There are some things we can’t stop. Like the disgruntled kid who takes his dad’s shotgun and walks into a high school. But we could have stopped the guy in Vegas. I blame the lobbyists. And the biggest in the gun world is the NRA.” —country music singer-songwriter Eric Church, who, despite claiming he’s “a Second Amendment guy,” says “nobody should have that many guns and that much ammunition and we don’t know about it”
And last… “‘Illegal straws’? Show some compassion. It’s 2018. They’re called undocumented drinking structures.” —Allie Beth Stuckey
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57439-tuesday-short-cuts
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