2 October 2019Saman Javed

US trial against alleged Chinese trade secret theft set to begin

US prosecutors will attempt to prove that a Chinese professor conspired with a colleague from the University of Southern California ( USC) to steal and sell trade secrets to the Chinese government and military in a court trial today, October 2.

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