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West freaking out as China beckons top tech talent

West freaking out as China beckons top tech talent
China is trying to use talent recruitment as one way to become a science and technology superpower, US intelligence officials believe. (Image: Depositphotos)
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By Bertrand Benoit, Liza Lin, Heather Somerville and Kim Mackrael,with assistance from Joyu Wang in Taipei and Dustin Volz in WashingtonExecutives at Zeiss SMT, which makes indispensable components to build the world’s most powerful semiconductors, got some troubling news last autumn. Headhunters from Huawei Technologies, the Chinese tech firm, were trying to poach its employees.Staff with access to sensitive Zeiss know-how received LinkedIn messages, emails and calls from Huawei representatives, offering them up to three times their sala...

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