China is concealing intelligence operations as corporate entities and research programs, a security expert warned at a Vancouver international security forum on foreign threats.
Greg Levesque, co-founder and CEO of Strider Technologies, outlined China’s technology theft tactics targeting democracies, including Canada, during a Nov. 25 keynote at the Vancouver International Security Summit. The tactics include recruiting overseas Chinese researchers to steal foreign technology and using research partnerships to mask intelligence operations, he said.
Levesque highlighted the Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biomedicine (TJAB), saying, “This is an intelligence operation that was monetized, a corporate entity was created, but it was with the full background support from the PRC [People’s Republic of China].”…