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The United States sanctioned five entities related to Ding Linwei for stealing trade secrets. China’s Ministry of Commerce strongly opposed this and demanded that the United States stop slander and withdraw the measures as soon as possible.
On the 19th, the United States imposed sanctions on Chinese citizens and former officials on the grounds that it “involves theft of trade secrets.”Google (Google ) 5 entities related to software engineer Ding Linwei. ChinaMinistry of Commerce On the evening of the 20th, it expressed “strong protest” over this and urged the United States to correct its practices, otherwise it will retaliate.
On the evening of the 20th, the website of China’s Ministry of Commerce published “The spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce answered reporters’ questions on US sanctions against Chinese companies for theft of trade secrets.” A reporter asked that on the 19th, the United States imposed sanctions on five Chinese companies for theft of trade secrets in accordance with the “US Intellectual Property Protection Law” and asked China to comment on this?
A spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said that the United States is exaggerating the so-called “theft of trade secrets” issue, “stigmatizing Chinese companies and imposing sanctions, which seriously harms the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies and is serious in nature. China firmly opposes this.”
The spokesperson claimed that the rapid growth of China’s artificial intelligence companies is due to continuous investment in long-term in-depth basic research and innovation. This is the result of an emphasis on independent scientific and technological innovation and open collaboration. This is beneficial to China, the United States, and the world, and has nothing to do with so-called “theft of trade secrets.” China urges the United States to correctly view the great development achieved by Chinese enterprises, stop denigrating and suppressing it, create a market environment for fair competition, and safeguard the overall situation of China-US cooperation. Economic and trade cooperation.
The spokesperson also said that “China urges the United States to correct its wrong practices as soon as possible, otherwise it will take necessary measures to respond and firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies.”
According to French Radio International (RFI), the US State Department announced on the 19th that it will impose sanctions on five entities belonging to Chinese national Ding Linwei under the Protection of American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA) for stealing trade secrets from US citizens.
The US State Department noted that the sanctions were imposed following an investigation into Ding Linwei by the US Department of Justice and the FBI. On January 29 this year, a federal jury found Ding Linwei guilty of seven counts of stealing trade secrets. Ding Linwei was found guilty of stealing thousands of pages of confidential information containing trade secrets related to Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology with the intention of benefiting himself and Chinese technology companies.
According to reports, the five entities sanctioned by the US State Department this time include: Shanghai Zhisuan Technology Co., Ltd.; QG Chuangtan Beijing Investment Management Co., Ltd.; Beijing Qiji Chuangtan Phase I Venture Capital Center (Limited Partnership); Beijing Qiji Chuangtan Phase II Venture Capital Center (Limited Partnership); Beijing Kiji Chuangtan Zhiyuan Enterprise Management Center (Limited Partnership).
Among them, Zisuan Technology is an entity established in China in 2023 by Ding Linwei. It claims to be able to develop a software platform that can accelerate machine learning workloads, including using supercomputing chips to train large super intelligence (SI) models.
The case is one of the high-profile AI intellectual property cases between the United States and China, the report said. After Ding Linwei was convicted in January this year, the US Justice Department said he had secretly established relationships with two Chinese AI companies while he was employed at Google. According to the indictment, less than 2 weeks before his resignation in December 2023, Ding Linwei transferred more than 2,000 pages of trade secrets to his personal cloud account and downloaded the related files to his computer.
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The U.S. State Department said the action was taken in accordance with the “Protect U.S. Intellectual Property Act” on the grounds that it involved theft of trade secrets from U.S. subjects, and targeted sanctions were imposed on five entities related to Ding Linwei.
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China’s Ministry of Commerce expressed its strong protest, believing that the United States has stigmatized and imposed sanctions on Chinese companies, seriously harming legitimate rights and interests, and urged the United States to correct its wrong practices, otherwise China will take necessary measures to respond.
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The United States accused Ding Linwei of stealing thousands of pages of AI-related trade secrets while he was employed at Google, and before resigning, he transferred more than 2,000 pages of confidential information to a personal cloud account and downloaded it to his computer.
