US Condemns China’s Attempts to Steal American COVID-19 Research: Pompeo

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during a media briefing at the State Department in Washington, U.S., May 6, 2020. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Pool

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced the Chinese regime’s attempts to steal U.S. research on COVID-19, and called on Beijing to stop the behavior.

The rebuke comes after the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on May 13 confirmed that the FBI was investigating China-linked “cyber actors” and monitoring their attempts to “identify and illicitly obtain valuable intellectual property (IP) and public health data related to vaccines, treatments, and testing from networks and personnel affiliated with COVID-19-related research.”