A US-based Chinese scientist, Xiang Haitao, 44, a Chinese national formerly residing in Chesterfield, Missouri, stole trade secrets from Monsanto and its subsidiary, The Climate Corporation, from 2008 to 2017 where he worked as an imaging scientist. This case raises the issue of the extent of such theft of intellectual property, which according to many sources is one of the ways China has been able to advance so quickly technologically. The West, with its present-day non-discrimination, unlike China, freely allows the world to enter its research facilities, and assumes that they are nothing more than liberal individuals with no tribal and racial loyalty. Wrong assumption as cases like this show.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/14/monsanto-scientists-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-for-china/
