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When Chinese Industrial Espionage Goes Wrong

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Shannon You’s story is about so much more than just Coca-Cola’s other secret recipe. Her get-rich-quick scheme cast new light on how industrial espionage has become a big part of China’s economic growth, and provided fuel to those who accuse the country's Thousand Talents Program of incentivizing technology theft on an unprecedented scale.

Bloomberg reporters dug through reams of documents and FBI interrogation footage to reveal how a middle-aged chemical engineer's story became a parable of US-China economic tensions.

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