Okay China, you can enslave people, run sweatshops, and unleash a worldwide pandemic. But if you mess with Coca-Cola then you've gone too dang far!
That's what a certain Michigan woman, Xiaorong You, learned after she was convicted of spying for the Chi-Comms by a Tennessee judge this week.
Did this lady break into the secret vault and learn the secret formula to Coke?
How dare she breach that sacred space?
A Michigan woman convicted of spying for the Chinese Communist Party and using her job as a chemist to steal trade secrets from her employers, which included Coca-Cola, was sentenced by a federal judge in Tennessee Monday to serve 14 years in prison and an additional three years of supervised release.
The judge in Greeneville, Tennessee, also ordered 59-year-old Xiaorong You, also known as Shannon You, of Lansing, Michigan, to pay a $200,000 fine following her April 2021 conviction on the federal charges of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, conspiracy to commit economic espionage, possession of stolen trade secrets, economic espionage and wire fraud.
This lady worked years as a chemist at various companies, stealing intellectual property to send to the commies in China.
Communism cannot produce things. Only steal from the West.
And it's not just Coke.
You was granted access to the trade secrets while working at The Coca-Cola Co. in Atlanta, and Eastman Chemical Co. in Kingsport, Tennessee, the Justice Department said. The stolen trade secrets belonged to major chemical and coating companies, including Akzo-Nobel, BASF, Dow Chemical, PPG, Toyochem, Sherwin Williams and Eastman Chemical Co.
The technology cost an estimated $120 million to develop.
You stole the trade secrets to set up a new BPA-free coating company in China. She and her Chinese corporate partner, Weihai Jinhong Group, received millions of dollars in Chinese government grants to support the new company, including a Thousand Talents Plan award.
The Thousand Talents program was developed by the Chinese government to lure talented Chinese experts in various subject matters living overseas to bring their knowledge and experience back to China, often rewarding individuals for stealing proprietary information.
This is a reminder that these spies are literally EVERYWHERE.
This is the Chinese model. Send students to the United States to infiltrate universities and then industries in order to send that info back to the commies.
"When companies invest huge amounts of time and money to develop world-class technologies, only to have those technologies stolen, the results are devastating," Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, said. "Crimes like the defendant's threaten both victim companies and the economic security of the nation as a whole. This case should serve as a warning to those entrusted with valuable trade secrets: if you break the law, you will be punished."
"Stealing technology isn't just a crime against a company," acting Assistant Director Bradley S. Benavides of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division added. "It's a crime against American workers whose jobs and livelihoods are impacted. Today's sentencing is a reminder that the FBI and its partners will hold accountable those who break our laws and threaten our economic and national security."
The tragedy, of course, is that we might continue to catch these individual spies, but our government won't begin to turn anti-China any time soon.
It's the government of China that's the problem, and as long as we are friendly with the Chi-Comms these acts of spying will continue to happen.
The Chinese Communist Party needs to be punished, not just its pawns.
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