China launches crackdown on trade secret leaks in AI and high-tech sectors

China launches crackdown on trade secret leaks in AI and high-tech sectors China has launched a new campaign to tighten controls over the sharing of trade secrets, as Beijing pushes to protect its high-tech industries and reduce reliance on foreign technology. The month-long campaign, announced on Monday by a national watchdog, will focus on key sectors including artificial intelligence, biomedicine and integrated circuits, state news agency Xinhua reported. Authorities said they would step up investigations into employees accused of taking trade secrets to new jobs, as well as companies involved in “malicious poaching”.