The Science of Seed Spying
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My latest at the Diplomat is a short review of Mara Hvistendahl’s wonderful the Scientist and the Spy:
Not all Chinese intellectual property theft involves military technology. In the Scientist and the Spy, Mara Hvistendahl details the long case of Robert Mo, a Chinese scientist who was convicted of stealing IP-rich seeds from several cornfields in Iowa, and trying to send those seeds back to China.