The indictments against the five charged Chinese citizens are not for espionage, they are for theft of trade secrets and associated IP law violations. The Chinese government, so far, has denied the allegations. This happens between countries, the French, for example, also have been known to use their intelligence agencies to steal information from other countries to help their domestic industries.
China is alleged to have done the same, so the US is upping the ante to try to get China to stop. This is just one more way countries do this to each other. Don't get sucked in by the click bait on this. This is pure economics between commercial competitors, and the use of government resources to steal IP to help their domestic industries, it's not anything else.
Last I checked they still haven't given an explanation for that. Probably because their default explanation for spying over the past years has been "because terrorists", but they couldn't give that one for the spying on Petrobas because they would be laughed out of the building. And that's just one example of US economic espionage, as it's probably part of the foreign policy by now.
China has denied the charges, saying they were "made up."
The charges are "made up". It says so clearly right there. I am sure the chinese goverment wouldn't lie to its people, in the same way the US does not. </s>
"also have been known to use their intelligence agencies to steal information from other countries to help their domestic industries."
Yes, that does appear to happen. And, based on my server logs at least, I'm going to say suspicion of China doing this seems reasonable.
However, as bad as using intelligence agencies to benefit private corporations may be, the US could be accused of using it's military paid for by public funds and actually killing large numbers of people to benefit private industries. Not saying the US isn't right. But, until its behavior improves on the international stage, its hard not to roll ones eyes in disgust.
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The indictments against the five charged Chinese citizens are not for espionage, they are for theft of trade secrets and associated IP law violations. The Chinese government, so far, has denied the allegations. This happens between countries, the French, for example, also have been known to use their intelligence agencies to steal information from other countries to help their domestic industries.
China is alleged to have done the same, so the US is upping the ante to try to get China to stop. This is just one more way countries do this to each other. Don't get sucked in by the click bait on this. This is pure economics between commercial competitors, and the use of government resources to steal IP to help their domestic industries, it's not anything else.
As did US:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...
Last I checked they still haven't given an explanation for that. Probably because their default explanation for spying over the past years has been "because terrorists", but they couldn't give that one for the spying on Petrobas because they would be laughed out of the building. And that's just one example of US economic espionage, as it's probably part of the foreign policy by now.
Or how's this for "IP stealing":
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266892/exclusive-nsa...
They gave an explanation right in the article you linked to.
Well the chinese have given explainations too. :)
See?
The charges are "made up". It says so clearly right there. I am sure the chinese goverment wouldn't lie to its people, in the same way the US does not. </s>
"also have been known to use their intelligence agencies to steal information from other countries to help their domestic industries."
Yes, that does appear to happen. And, based on my server logs at least, I'm going to say suspicion of China doing this seems reasonable.
However, as bad as using intelligence agencies to benefit private corporations may be, the US could be accused of using it's military paid for by public funds and actually killing large numbers of people to benefit private industries. Not saying the US isn't right. But, until its behavior improves on the international stage, its hard not to roll ones eyes in disgust.