Federal authorities charged the president and an employee of a California-based company on July 20 with conspiring to illegally export specialty chemicals to a Chinese state-owned manufacturer of chips used in military systems.
Tao Jiang, the CEO of Broad Tech System Inc., and Bohr Winn-Shih, the firm’s equipment engineer, allegedly conspired to illegally export specialty chemicals from a Rhode Island-backed manufacturer to China Electronics Technology Group Corporation 55th Research Institute.