The US government has alleged that a GE engineer and Chinese businessman stole tech secrets with the intention of passing them on to Beijing
The Justice Department in a release Tuesday night said it had charged former GE employee Zheng Xiaoqing and Chinese businessman Zhang Zhaoxi with economic espionage. The department said the pair had conspired to steal GE trade secrets related to turbine technologies for the benefit of the Chinese government.
Read MoreChinese efforts to get hold of American companies' tech secrets are a sensitive issue. It's one of the main reasons cited by the Trump administration for launching a trade war with China last year.
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