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Jim RosicaMarch 27, 2018

Alleged Russian meddling in American elections may get the headlines, Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said on Tuesday, but it’s Chinese espionage that worries him more. Rubio, the former Florida House Speaker first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, spoke with reporters in a rare media briefing in his Tallahassee office on the 21st […]

Jim RosicaAugust 30, 2017

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China wants “information dominance” and is willing to engage in “political warfare” to get it, an expert said Wednesday at a Tallahassee town hall on the communist country’s theft of intellectual property, or IP. The hour-and-a-half event on the Florida State University campus was billed as a Congressional “field hearing” by Republican Congressmen Matt Gaetz […]

Jim RosicaAugust 30, 2017

A Chinese-based energy concern says today’s town hall by Republican Congressmen Matt Gaetz and Neal Dunn on Chinese espionage against American companies is an “attack” that’s “entirely unfair.” Nantong Bing Energy, in a press release issued Wednesday morning, said “China has repeatedly amended its patent laws to conform to international legal standards. It has also tried to reinforce its judicial structure […]

Jim RosicaAugust 4, 2017

Republican Congressmen Matt Gaetz and Neal Dunn of north Florida announced a town hall later this month on Chinese espionage against American companies, citing a Tallahassee-based business Gov. Rick Scott once promoted as a job-creator. The meeting, “Wanton Loot: How China Is Stealing Ideas from American Entrepreneurs,” will be held in Florida State University’s Turnbull Conference […]

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