Chinese officer convicted for stealing US aviation trade secrets

A Chinese spy has been convicted of conspiring to and attempting to commit economic espionage and theft of trade secrets from US aviation, the Justice Department said in a statement on Friday.

“A federal jury convicted Yanjun Xu, a Chinese national and Deputy Division Director of the Sixth Bureau of the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security, of conspiring to and attempting to commit economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. The defendant is the first Chinese intelligence officer to be extradited to the United States to stand trial,” read the statement.

“This conviction of a card-carrying intelligence officer for economic espionage underscores that trade secret theft is integral to the PRC government’s plans to modernize its industries,”