To the Editor:
Re “In F.B.I.’s Sights: Stolen Research Flowing to China” (front page, Nov. 4):
Chinese scientists are not just stealing secrets from the National Institutes of Health and the biomedical community. With active support and encouragement from China’s central government, the systematic looting of American technologies is occurring on virtually every scientific front inside the United States.
The American scientific community has a major problem on its hands that it has not been able to address: Its open research climate continues to spawn world-class ideas, but the Chinese are stealing ideas and trying to commercialize them before the Americans can, thanks to generous funding from Beijing.
When will America wake up and start defending its secrets?
William J. Holstein
Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.
The writer is the author of “The New Art of War: China’s Deep Strategy Inside the United States.”
