What a Trade-Secrets Case Shows About U.S. Efforts to Counter China

Micron Technology is the only U.S. company that makes a type of memory chip used to store data in everything from phones to laptops. Until recently, China did not have the capability to make these kinds of chips. So when some former Micron employees teamed up with a rival working with a Chinese government-owned company in Taiwan, U.S. prosecutors thought it would be a straightforward case of state-sponsored corporate theft. But last week, a federal judge in San Francisco disagreed. WSJ senior reporter Aruna Vishwanatha tells host Cordilia James why the verdict is being seen as a setback in efforts to contain Chinese corporate theft.

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Micron Technology is the only U.S. company that makes a type of memory chip used to store data in everything from phones to laptops. Until recently, China did not have the capability to make these kinds of chips. So when some former Micron employees teamed up with a rival working with a Chinese government-owned company in Taiwan, U.S. prosecutors thought it would be a straightforward case of state-sponsored corporate theft. But last week, a federal judge in San Francisco disagreed. WSJ senior reporter Aruna Vishwanatha tells host Cordilia James why the verdict is being seen as a setback in efforts to contain Chinese corporate theft.

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