Sanctions

US sanctions 5 Chinese entities over ex-Google engineer’s AI trade secrets theft

South China Morning Post19 October 2026, 22:36 UTCUnited States of America

The US State Department announced on Monday that it was imposing sweeping sanctions under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA) on five Chinese entities suspected of stealing trade secrets from American companies. The targets include Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, founded by former Google software engineer Ding Linwei, venture capital firm MiraclePlus and three related entities. Ding was convicted of seven counts of trade secret theft in January. A federal judge subsequently...

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