The Shih brothers were involved in the purchase and export of sensitive technology
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/26
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A Taiwanese-Canadian researcher at a university in Canada
Spying suspect Professor Shih Ishiang (photo courtesy of McGill University)
has come under suspicion after his brother was charged in the United States with stealing technology and sending it to China.
Shih Yi-chi, an adjunct professor in engineering at the University of California in Los Angeles, was arrested for shipping computer chips with military applications to a company in the Chinese city of Chengdu without obtaining an export license, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.
The Chinese company had already been blacklisted in the U.S. in 2014 due to suspicions of involvement in illegal deals involving sensitive technology.
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