Our leading trading partner, communist China, according to ASIO director-general Mike Burgess, has engaged in the “most sustained and sophisticated” theft of intellectual property in history, with local Australian tech companies being targeted. The theft is “behaviour that goes beyond traditional espionage,” Burgess also said. He made the remarks at a meeting of the Five Eyes intelligence partners, Australia, US, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada, in California recently.
FBI director Christopher Wray said “The FBI have, over the last several years, had about a 1,300 per cent increase in investigations that are, in one way or another, related to attempts to steal intellectual property or other secrets by some form of the Chinese government, or some arm of the Chinese government.”