1. The first paragraph of a news article should answer the questions who, what, where and when. List the who, what, where and when of this news item. (NOTE: The remainder of a news article provides details on the why and/or how.

2. Define espionage, indictment and intellectual property.

3. a) Who are Xiaoqing Zheng and Zhaoxi Zhang?
b) What charges/allegations has the U.S. Department of Justice brought against the two men? Be specific.

4. What does Assistant AG John Demers accuse the China’s authoritarian government of doing?

5. The communist government has surveillance everywhere in China. Companies claim to be independent of the government. This is impossible. Note: When an American company wants to do business in China, the government forces them to turn over their trade secrets (technologies). [See CNN article under “Resources.”]
Why do you think a country with over 1 billion people does not have the ability to create their own technology but instead must steal U.S. intellectual property?