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Back to Episodes“China’s Corporate Spy War” – with CNBC’s Eamon Javers
Description
Summary
Eamon Javers (Twitter, LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter, LinkedIn) to discuss China’s Corporate Spy War. Eamon is the Senior Washington correspondent at CNBC.
What You’ll Learn
Intelligence
- Why go after corporate secrets?
- What’s at stake for the United States
- The case of Yanjun Xu and GE Aviation
- Military implications of economic espionage
Reflections
- The innovation nation
- Simple twists of fate
And much, much more …
***FULL SHOWNOTES AVAILABLE HERE***
Episode Notes
This week on SpyCast, Andrew is joined by CNBC’s Senior Washington Correspondent Eamon Javers to discuss his new documentary, China’s Corporate Spy War.
Quotes of the Week
“I don't think people in corporate America knew that, fully understood the scale of the threat. They thought this was kind of an annoyance like shoplifting is, and that you kind of just build in some procedures and there's some sunk costs associated with that, and you move on. What these intelligence guys were describing was an entirely different threat. This was the elimination of major American brands from the global marketplace.” - Eamon Javers.
Resources
SURFACE SKIM
*SpyCasts*
- Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East vs. West with Calder Walton (2023)
- The Counterintelligence Chief with FBI Assistant Director Alan Kohler (2023)
- Trafficking Data: The Digital Struggle with China with Aynne Kokas (2023)
- The FBI & Cyber with Cyber Division Chief Bryan Vorndran, Part 1 (2022)
- The FBI & Cyber with Cyber Division Chief Bryan Vorndran, Part 2 (2022)
- Dealing with Russia – A Conversation with Counterintelligence Legend Jim Olson (2022)
*Beginner Resources*
- What is Corporate Espionage?, A. T. Tunggal, UpGuard (2023) [Article]
- Timeline: U.S.-China Relations, Council on Foreign Relations (n.d.) [Timeline]
- A Tale of High Stakes Corporate Espionage, Bloomberg (2023) [7:44 video]
***FULL SHOWNOTES AVAILABLE HERE***
DEEPER DIVE
Books
- SPIES: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West, C. Walton (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
- The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage, M. Hvistendahl (Riverhe