The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been secretly setting up campuses in Taiwan for a long time, targeting the next generation of technology freshmen and the knowledge and technology they possess.
There are hundreds of ways for the CCP to poach Taiwanese talents. Analysis points out that there are four common ways for the CCP to poach Taiwanese talents and steal technology. Among them, in addition to hunting for talents through fake foreign and real Chinese companies, they have also extended their tentacles into campuses to reach out to the next generation of technology freshmen. Scholars also mentioned that the government should organize a semiconductor academy, but also to improve the mechanism, if the talent is poached equal to the tax money lost along with the technology.
Recently, it was revealed that the Chinese company Bitmainland illegally set up two subsidiaries in Taiwan, such as “IGS” and “Core Road”, to poach Taiwan IC design and R&D talents with high salaries to develop chips for the Chinese parent company, and poached more than 200 people within two years. The company has poached more than 200 people in 2 years, which may lead to the outflow of many business secrets and key technologies. This is a typical situation for Chinese companies to bypass the third place to set up fake foreign and real Chinese companies to poach Taiwanese talents.
The Chinese Communist Party’s tactics are not only this, but also multi-pronged and multi-pronged, and they have even been secretly set up on campuses to target the next generation of new techies and the knowledge and technology they possess.
Wu Jianzhong, an assistant professor at the Center for Liberal Studies at Taipei Maritime University of Technology who is familiar with the CCP’s infiltration of education in Taiwan, has compiled several common modes of the Red Supply Chain’s poaching of Taiwanese talent, including: industry-university cooperation with schools, holding cross-strait creative competitions, or talent hunting through manpower banks and headhunting companies, and even holding open calls for talent.
The cross-strait industry-academia cooperation is what worries Wu most, he said, the school has a lot of industrial technology and works closely with the industry, the other side also knows this, so early to extend the tentacles into the campus.
Wu found that many professors lacked caution, and the government and the university were also quite negligent, and did not specifically regulate the source and use of funds for industry-university cooperation cases, “which is the same as not doing a good job of gate-keeping”. He said that unknown units often make contact with teachers and students under the pretext of donating money, which is equivalent to planting the cause of talent poaching.
Cross-strait creative competitions also lurk many traps, he said, the Chinese Communist Party lacks technological innovation and will obtain Taiwan’s intellectual property rights by running competitions, while Taiwan’s attitude often appears to be unconcerned and Taiwan’s laws do not protect these intellectual property rights.
Strategy scholar Su Zi-yun, on the other hand, spoke of the CCP’s frequent use of fake academic exchanges and seminars to invite contributions from Taiwan’s academic community, which the Taiwanese side sometimes easily misjudges and thus leaks sensitive technology.
“The government has to make up for it.” Su Ziyun said that in Europe, America and Japan, many schools have security offices that will propose protection means for competitions with sensitive technology, including requiring teachers and students to bring blank cell phones and computers to avoid information and contacts leaking out, which is “worthy of Taiwan’s reference.”
In addition, Wu Jianzhong also said that manpower agencies and manpower banks are also the Chinese side of the talent hunt in Taiwan’s pipeline. The company’s agent in Taiwan, including Huawei’s “Foxlink Technology”, has published a large number of recruitment information on the human bank, however, Wu Jianzhong believes that this belongs to the public information, presumably shooting birds in the dark type of poaching, and the real “foul” is operated by the hunter head company on behalf of the knife.
In addition, it will also increase the difficulty of government examination. Last month’s case of “IGS” and “Core Road” belongs to this category.
He said that sometimes such recruitment is also very “blatant” and a large-scale recruitment activity has been held in a five-star hotel. He has also heard that Chinese enterprises have offered rather favorable conditions to Taiwanese talents, such as: the same results can be earned in China and Taiwan at the same time.
Semiconductor is Taiwan’s core industry, the Ministry of Economic Affairs intends to organize a semiconductor academy to solve the talent shortage, Wu Jianzhong reminded, by the state’s money to cultivate the talent, if jumped to the red supply chain, it is spent on the people’s tax money, more lost technology.
He suggested that the government should even improve the excessive terms, requiring relevant talents to not jump ship to the same field of industry within 3~5 years of graduation, “otherwise the Chinese Communist Party pays more money to poach, it will be too much to prevent”.
For there are Taiwan semiconductor talents choose to develop in China, Wu Jianzhong reminded, it is understood that in recent years there are still mastering the semiconductor process teachers, students to China, but they mastered the technology is used up, back to Taiwan can not match the new generation of process, and ultimately can not be in line with the industry. China is not able to break through the key process, but Taiwan continues to move forward, students who choose the wrong path, there is the possibility of being eliminated from the industry.
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