Former Coca-Cola Employee Convicted
of Stealing $120 Million Worth of Trade
Secrets to Sell in China
Epoch Times,
by
Cathy He
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
4/23/2021 7:51:06 PM
A Chinese-born American chemist was found guilty on April 22 for her role in a scheme to steal trade secrets worth an estimated $120 million from American companies for the purpose of setting up a Chinese company that would manufacture the product for the global market.
After a 12-day trial, 59-year-old You Xiaorong—also known as Shannon You—of Lansing, Michigan, was convicted of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, conspiracy to commit economic espionage, possession of stolen trade secrets, economic espionage, and wire fraud, (Snip)
While working at two U.S. companies—Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia, and Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tennessee—she stole trade secrets related to BPA-free (bisphenol-A) coating technology,
The Chinese thieves
Their Wuhan virus
Black lies making violence and looting
Pro Fascists smashing and burning
Democrats fraud and corruption
Illegals swarming
Better say your prayers.....
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BevNJ 4/23/2021 8:18:00 PM (No. 765146)
Could there be a hint in the “Coca” part of its brand name? (My mom worked in the front office for a company in 1940 which handled Coke’s secret ingredient #7, and she was sure it was that indeed).
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The secret coke formula is stored in a safe, which is stored inside a vault. which is stored inside a volcano. Only three people know this formula and if they tell anyone they have to be killed. All this security and "New Coke" was the best they could come up with?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
konocti95 4/23/2021 8:49:42 PM (No. 765160)
"You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company." Col "Bat" Guano
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
padiva 4/23/2021 8:57:26 PM (No. 765163)
But, I thought China was our friend.
In the equitable outcome world, China deserved to have this information.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 4/23/2021 9:16:07 PM (No. 765174)
I'm confused, this woman is convicted for stealing trade secrets, but Bill and Hillary sold military secrets to the same Chinese. Yet, nothing happened. Notice the newest Chinese fighter plane. It looks like a clone of the F35. Now I wonder why that is..
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/23/2021 9:37:34 PM (No. 765184)
I wonder if she was here on an H1 visa working for lower wages than a native-born citizen.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Luandir 4/23/2021 9:52:24 PM (No. 765193)
Can we really trust any Chinese-born immigrant? The Middle Kingdom has so many ways of getting their fingers around their people in the U.S.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 4/23/2021 10:04:07 PM (No. 765207)
Again, George Bush 1 as informal ambassador to China for Gerald Ford and the Rockefeller wing of the GOP started the US on a path of reducing the greatest nation in history to a communist satellite unable to protect its most established businesses.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 4/23/2021 10:41:02 PM (No. 765229)
Hiring Chinese is a very high probably of hiring a spy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/23/2021 11:02:07 PM (No. 765244)
She didn't sleep with Swallwell did she?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/24/2021 12:48:43 AM (No. 765267)
They say she is a person who was born in China who is now an American. So chances are when she came to the USA she was a Chinese citizen, who after arriving and spending time in the USA was granted US citizenship through the naturalization process. Today almost all foreign born people who attain naturalized US citizenship get to retain their home country citizenship. So it is really a crapshoot trying to figure out where such people’s allegiances really lie, with their home country, or with the USA.
It’s not like the old time immigration when foreign people left their countries of birth to immigrate to the USA, never to return, or have much contact with people in the so-called “old country” except through occasional mail. Now in the era of the digitally connected world, with access to instant mass international communications and worldwide travel, immigrants if they wish, can keep in constant contact with their foreign families and friends in the “old country”. Some such immigrants today, once they depart from the USA, use their foreign passports as their identity and travel documents with which they travel around the world, and then to get back into the USA switch back to using their US passport, and consider their status as a naturalized US citizen as a convenience factor that allows them to enter, live, and work in the USA. And as you see here can they easily collude with foreign entities and hand over very valuable US trade secrets to foreign entities and corporations that are effectively owned by the Chinese Communist Government.
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Ya know, if our colleges gave Americans a real education, maybe companies wouldn't hire Chinese scientist.
At this point Coke deserves what they get.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/24/2021 1:18:31 AM (No. 765295)
Another Chinaman. Why does this country import them?
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Couldn't happen to a nicer company. Get woke, Coke, why are you prosecuting your pals?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Krause 4/24/2021 6:52:45 AM (No. 765378)
But compared to the extremely outrageous Georgia voting instructions this China thing is nothing.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 4/24/2021 7:09:39 AM (No. 765392)
She needed to act less white.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
franq 4/24/2021 7:11:46 AM (No. 765393)
The Chinese have to steal or copy every technological design.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/24/2021 7:29:00 AM (No. 765409)
Woke enough for you?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/24/2021 7:35:08 AM (No. 765422)
#2, having grown up in the Deep South in the 50’s I was taught the history of Coca Cola and when first marketed to the public, it did have cocaine in it. Eventually the cocaine was removed from it - sometime in the 60’s I think.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/24/2021 8:03:39 AM (No. 765466)
Coke got what they deserve. China does this all the time. Purchase something good, a few now, more "later", then they reverse engineer it, cancel the "later" contract, and make it themselves.
A nation of thieves.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/24/2021 8:09:11 AM (No. 765473)
And yes, coca-cola was originally created as a medicinal. One of the "creators" was a confederate officer who was addicted to morphine, due to wounds he recieved during the Civil War. He was looking for something he could use to wean himself off the morphine. Coca-cola contained a minute amount of cocaine.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/24/2021 8:13:51 AM (No. 765482)
One last thing: considering Coca-Cola's origins, and its recent attachment to China with its slave camps for undesirables, it should be nick-named. "Slave Juice".
Just thinkin'.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack 4/24/2021 8:29:39 AM (No. 765502)
No tears from me after the Colorado fiasco. Batter up.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 4/24/2021 8:44:35 AM (No. 765521)
That’s what you get for hiring the China man. How many times has this happen - hire me and and I will steal for my Chinese country.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
mythman 4/24/2021 9:07:19 AM (No. 765551)
Wokacola gets rolled. LOL!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 4/24/2021 9:22:01 AM (No. 765561)
#2, Your Mom was right. Cocaine was an ingredient in Coca Cola originally. It had to be taken out because of government regulations. The current recipe is a closely guarded secret. (Brown food coloring, sugar and fizz.)
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/24/2021 9:42:25 AM (No. 765583)
Chinese born
Barbara Boxer had a Chinese spy as her driver for 20 years. American citizens must be too' trustworthy' for the Democrats.
Anyone remember the TV series 'The Americans'? A complete All-American family was raised and trained in Moscow to work among us providing secrets they learned around Washington DC.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 4/24/2021 9:54:59 AM (No. 765604)
no 28 it was feinstein who had a chinese chauffeur...
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
starboard 4/24/2021 9:58:54 AM (No. 765608)
The Chinese have been using women spys for decades. They know American men are fools for a pretty face.
Also, let's not forget the former Governor of New Mexico and secretary of energy of the Clinton Administration who mistakenly (yeah right) gave away national security nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos Laboratory to Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwan-born Chinese
Wapo April 29, 1999 FTA: The Clinton administration acknowledged yesterday that an espionage suspect at Los Alamos National Laboratory transferred secret nuclear weapons data from a classified computer network to an unclassified system vulnerable to outsiders.
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson called the data transfer, between 1983 and 1995, "a serious security breach that is unconscionable." But he stressed that FBI agents have yet to determine whether the highly sensitive data, covering years of nuclear weapons research and testing, have been pilfered from the unclassified computers by foreign countries....
The Article continues. The CCP are masters of spying and stealing.
I have no doubt they cut a deal with Dominion, and the Democrats to steal the 2020 election in exchange to take control of our country and economy. The CCP sit at the top of the pyramid, even above Big Tech.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/24/2021 10:15:36 AM (No. 765626)
One thing the chicoms are very good at is theft of intellectual property. This article is one example of many. Before I retired in 2019 from my corporate director's position, I traveled several times to China on business. Standard company policy for travel to the land of the chicoms required me to leave my company cell phone and laptop at my office prior to departure and plainly visible on my desk and a corporate security person would verify these were on my desk. Before leaving on these trips, I was assigned a special laptop that was only equipped with a web-based email platform so I could still read my business mail. Of course, I could not access company servers. This was serious business. Each year, we received very comprehensive anti-trust, anti-bribery, and corporate security training as a strong reminder to watch what we say and who we say it to especially when in the people's republic of china, Aside from this, my trips to China were really nice.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Zigrid 4/24/2021 10:34:14 AM (No. 765648)
This brings to mind... WHY does china have to steal information from America... if they are so clever and a threat to the world... why must they steal technology.... could it be their not so clever and their scientists are better at thievery than invention... doesn't say much for their future if it's dependent on America... interesting...send her home where she can live with a mediocre lifestyle...rather than American joie de vivre
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 4/24/2021 10:44:39 AM (No. 765665)
Climate change made her do it! Couldn’t of happened to a more woke company.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/24/2021 12:35:03 PM (No. 765800)
We've been told time and again the diversity is our strength.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
red1066 4/24/2021 1:02:06 PM (No. 765828)
#6 Look at a lot of Chinese military equipment. Almost all of it looks like U.S. equipment. It won't operate as well. Nothing the Chinese make works as well as the original. Stealing the ideas and goods of another country has been an old Chinese way of life. I remember about ten years ago, watching a program on the Chinese copying items from around the world. They took a BMW X5, and made a Chinese copy of it. It looked just like the German vehicle, except they used cheaper material to make it.
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24tea@Mag 4/24/2021 2:12:12 PM (No. 765893)
How many years was this known before conviction. Seems like it takes forever to get prosecutions.
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Related to the special coatings that line cans and various containers. The Coca Cola formula is said to be locked in a vault.