35-year-old Weibao Wang was charged with stealing Apple’s trade secrets for self-driving cars and fleeing to China. Officials say Wang is still at large and if convicted faces ten years in prison for each trade secret violation. NBC News’ Dana Griffin shares the latest.
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Intellectual property theft is the Chinese business model.
Just don’t hire Chinese people. They can’t be trusted. It’s simple, really.
How would they not retain him?
Chinese in The UNITED States on Work Visas are all spies. I said it.
Exactly what the Chinese governement is doing to the billionaires in their country. Apple and people in tech will still employ these “criminal” immigrants, but choose not to employ people who are currently in america.
This is ridiculous, CIA spend more time following Donald Trump than following CHINESE
agents working in USA territory. THE WHOLE WORLD IS LAUGHING, USA is running
in critical mode at the present time. How is possible that we can not have A MAN
capable of running the GLOBAL OFFICE and not running his mouth? 😂😂
If china is an adversary to THE US, US should not employ chinese people because one day they will go back to china carrying secret tech with them.china can give them citizenship any time!
Just have mandatory body cameras for all employees 😂
Hire a non-china chinese if you really want smart ppl.
Looool, I absolutely love it, ahahahah. Please, employ more Chinese, it is so profitable, such a good investment. Love to see these upset dumb faces 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
as an asian i hope they catch him and put him in jail for 30 years and fine him $200,000
See what race is stereotypes get Americans!? Probably many minorities in America could have done his job better but because of positive stereotypes he was allowed to steal
Civ V notification: China has stolen the secret to Self-Driving Cars
never hire a china worker they bring tech back to home land
Autonomous cars by Apple? OMG stop the theft. lol I can’t wait to pay $10 million for a car that only works for 3 years. Apple should have waited for him to go back to China, improve the idea and then they should have copied that. How do we know he stole their stuff? Maybe it was his stuff.
what I just don’t understand is why American Companies keep hiring Chinese instead of Americans for this kind of jobs. Their resumes are inflated, their experience is mostly fake and they can barely speak English. I guess well deserved for Apple, Dow, MSFT, etc. The Chinese government just save billions of dollars in development while Apple and others keeps hiring Chinese like the idiots they are! But never give a chance to American workers!
The Chinese have done this years. When are the west going to learn not to hire Chinese.
Can they at least pronounce the dude’s name right?
Let me get this straight. They arrested the man on serious Charges and the still was able to get a one way ticket to China. Really
Wow… anti-China propaganda is non-stop.
So stupid.
Lol cope harder Americans. When anyone does anything better it’s stolen from you
Good for Apple, keep bringing foreigners on working visas, to learn your trade secrets so you get to save money
Chinese 🤮
That’s crazy
He is hiding in China 🇨🇳. But he can’t hide forever from the FBI. He will be caught.
He destroyed his promising career, his freedom, his family, and his life
to benefit the thuggish Chinese 🇨🇳 regime.
When IP thefts are mentioned, people always think of the Chinese 🇨🇳 students or employees.
Why?
Anti-China news articles, videos are being generated every second because US sees China as a competitor/enemy. And American people LOVE anti-China content.
Companies need to be extra careful with Chinese employees. Whether they are US citizens or not. Chinese cannot be trusted
China🇨🇳 now offers a PhD. program in the following subjects:
– Advanced Chemistry in Fentanyl,
– Election interference without a trace,
*- IP thefts in a nutshell,* and
– Assimilate and Denial concentration.
No wonder they all thieves,
After losing its most populous nation title to India 🇮🇳, China now tops the world in IP thefts.
Biggest concerns of Business operating in China 🇨🇳 are about:
– IP thefts,
– unfair competition and
– human rights violations.
FBI only follow good people……… drug dealers and Chinese intellectual property thief do not get them.
YouTube gets ugly. 🤪🤪
US stuff is inferior, doesnt make sense he stole that stuff. Chinese, Japanese, German techolnology are more superior than American.
Corporate theft of trade secrets should be punishable by death if given to foreign adversaries, the same with the kid that recently leaked US Top Secret information. Maybe I’ve not had my coffee yet and so my mind is still in primitive emotional response mode, but we live in the information age so the unlawful transfer of sensitive information should be one of the highest crimes.
China in the news again for spying
Anti-China news is being generating every second. Westerns love it!
I don’t condone theft of IP by anyone or any nation, but am tired of hearing American government and media would relentlessly smear China on groundless evidence in so many instances. If this dude is truly guilty, present evidences from both sides instead of one-sided accusation. Besides, I believe many Chinese companies are ahead of the American companies in the arena of autonomous car technology. And I don’t believe Apple is even a strong contender.
How come USA don’t lock airport the same way as Cuba?
Cuba is a communist country too.
He was able to fly out that same night. C’mon man
Never hire Chinese. Lots of better talent around
Why would you hire Chinese people for anything at this point? You know how to will end.
Something is wrong with this story. So many FBI agents arrested the guy and with full evidence yet he was able to be let go back to China on the same night. This is a joke.
I know We ain’t stupid.
@1:58 yes you can just stop hiring Chinese people for any tech company developing or testing anything. It’s ok to discriminate don’t let the wackos fool you into thinking it’s not.
The US has huge amounts of untapped talent. Education is unaffordable. So, this is the ish that happens.
They too busy being TikTok stars?
Stop hiring Chinese people. Problem solved;)
CHINA MAKES A NEW SELF DRIVE CAR !!!! REALITY FKN TOOK THE CODE FROM A USA COMPANY LOL MADE IN CHINA DESIGNED ON CALIFORNIA APPLE FOR YOU CHEAP LABOR FKN JOKE FK IPHONE
Keep hiring more Chinese Apple , and see Apple’s demise soon !
In the end, China will never win the war.
Place an embargo on China!
Enough of this from a dirty country.
Would China’s tech sector exist if they couldn’t rely on theft
China … nuff said.
Out of all Asian be ware of them lol
But how could this guy steal a non existed tech from Apple. Apple didn’t have the tech yet and how can this man steal it? lol….
10 yrs in prison?! no wonder he left. FBI so smart in searching for evidence at his home but did not stop him from flying home.
don’t trust Chinese ever ,they are always loyal to China
Batman will extradite him!
Everyone acting as if this is new!! America has been doing this and nothing, let’s be realistic now the American government is part of the system.
America stealing tech from who? 😆
Lol good luck to the US government. China has been stealing trade secrets for well over a decade now. I know it has been a huge problem for Qualcomm.
Holly crap.. you dumb people let him go??? My guess, Apple wasn’t allowed to do business with China, So they hired this guy to do it through espionage. Which means there are more Chinese people involved in order to hand him money to carry inside.
Good.
If you hired a black person this wouldn’t have happened. Thats what you get
Which blk people in that field? Not many
🤣🤣🤣🤣
THE STORY IS WHY DID A CHINESE ESCAPE FBI
but George Floyd didn’t 😢 💔 😔
The small fish is caught while the big fish continue to eat
Has anyone seen an Apple car with auto pilot? It sounds like this guy is stealing high speed train technology from the US. LOL!
China is laughing right now. The U.S.A. needs to ban Chinese apps and Chinese employees. Most of them are double agents working for Chinese companies. There is no way for an American or European company to publish an application in China without a Chinese company stealing their source code. So why should we allow them to publish Chinese apps in America?
This is the risk when you trust Chinese. They all work or are controlled by the CCP.
Can u also researxh the people that killed foreign employees, or people going to work in foreign countries bexause they are racist and scared of the American technology getting stolen ? Is the solution killing people? Boeing employees that were going to work for Turkey were killed in thy plane crash in amsterdam
Vigilant after the fact.typical Biden.
When big name brands steal ideas from small brands 🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽
This is why they make the indian ceos them are too honest and don’t steal anything 😂
Technically the chinese approach is way better for their country !
And that’s why we should only hire Americans
“You will never be able to stop …” that is so true. Tech industry is dominated by whites and asians and lot of them are chinese, some born here others were born in china. I work in the defense industry, same.
If you don’t hire asian and chinese tech workers in particular you won;t have enough workers.
Stop hiring Chinese tech support… with ties to the ccp..
american grown graduates who take out loan money for school should get first priority
Why u even hiring .. working .. or even traing the fuxxing enemy
All they had to do was stop hiring chinese nationals. simple. and maybe add some 1st gen chinese.
The Chinese are duplicating the West’s method of ascendancy, where Chinese steal, the West plundered. Abominable behavior on both sides…
Don’t hire Chinese nationalists
Chinese government will protect him from DOJ and Apple.
This is just a tip of an iceberg, stealing is ccp natural.
Those chinaman need to be punished
Good job wang.. Now china crest you 1000 credit score
The west needs to stop putting up with China’s B.S.
We let China cheat and get ahead, just isn’t fair. There are other countries that can do what China does, and doesn’t cheat and isn’t communist.
So his apartment was raided and he was there…how was he able to get on a plane an get to China?
Chinese
Us never learn
How many of these “employees” from china have actually stolen trade secrets?
Lol imagine trusting a Chinese to have access to your tech. All of them are liabilities.
America is stealing European tech & getting data inhuman Experiments from Japan+Germany for a price. Seem Americans have habit barking louder if their enemy did something similiar to them😅
Don’t blame the world , do some introspection.
Why make him Head of Autonomous driving?
There are five indictments, u chose to highlight only one indictment on your channel. . Why? Chinese content?
When will US learn about intellectual propertyy theft
not sure why US companies still hire Chinese engineers from China
i can steal any infromation from a company with a wifi pineapple………………………………………………………………….
scientists protect army navy air force and marines.
cardoon wheat and mustard……………………………….
Well, Apple likes to do business with Mainland Communist China. To be very alert when hiring employees from Main Land. Good luck finding him. Mother Land Of China is protecting him.
Yup so busy fighting each other betraying each other controling each other taking advantage of each other, other contries are just walking away with U.S. stuff everywhere.
Chinese again…