The Newsweek report accuses Chinese of stealing all kinds of technologies from avionics, materials, supercomputers, biotechnology to medical technology. Much of what China wants isn't even military, but industrial technologies and scientific know-how. Scientific progress depends on the increasingly free exchange of ideas among researchers and across national borders. The media has always accused China's trade surplus as a threat to American economy. Like advanced ideas of politics, the advanced ideas of technology the Chinese students and scientists acquiring from the U.S. will serve the ultimate interest of improving the human rights in China by raising the living standards, medical and education level of the Chinese people.
China has an over-population and a suffocating pollution problem.
And sure they need new scientific ideas to improve the quality of their life and have a fresh and clean breathing room. Some smart guys need the spy to prove they are the smartest . The media reports has an assumption that without the help of American scientists, the Chinese cannot develop smart technology. The American media has made three mistakes in thinking this way. The media is belittling the wisdom and cleverness of Chinese scientists to develop high technology.