The case was one of 148 filed by the Justice Department as part of the China Initiative, a national security program put in place by the Trump White House.
US prosecutors say Haitao Xiang had Monsanto’s proprietary farming software on his device the day after he left the company and was about to fly to China.
Japan’s new foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, is a compromised man, distrusted by many in public and his party for his family’s “friendship” with China.
A former chief of counterintelligence at the CIA is predicting the possible methods Beijing will use in hopes of getting back their spy who was convicted by a federal jury and imprisoned earlier this month in Ohio.