I am not talking about espionage. I am talking about the situation where the US government takes what someone who is not a US citizen and located in another country has spent two decades privately working on a technology and then when patenting it, is informed that not only has the US government taken the use of the technology but if he speaks on the details of that technology in any public way, he will be imprisoned. No objections allowed, no payments received, only punishment if he discusses the subject matter.

As I have watched him do this research and development over those two decades, I recently asked him how it was going. He only response was the above and he would not discuss further that technology to protect me, my family and his family from any repercussions.

As I have come across this kind of activity before, I take the entire "stealing of intellectual property" concept as something that governments like to indulge in and like to accuse others of the "heinous" action while trying to appear as lily white innocents themselves.

YMMV, but as far as I am concerned China is just the new USA.