US faces 'unprecedented threat' from China on tech takeover

The National Intelligence Council's analysis, produced in April, described the Thousand Talents Plan as 'China's flagship talent programme and probably the largest in terms of funding.'

China’s “Thousand Talents” programme to tap into its citizens educated or employed in the US is a key part of multi-pronged efforts to transfer, replicate and eventually overtake US military and commercial technology, according to American intelligence officials.
 
The programme, begun in 2008, is far from secret. But its unadvertised goal is “to facilitate the legal and illicit transfer of US technology, intellectual property and know-how” to China, according to an unclassified analysis by the National Intelligence Council, the branch of US intelligence that assesses long-term trends.
 
The programme was highlighted Thursday to House Armed Services Committee members