Top 7 US technologies China, other nations want to steal

4. Advanced materials and manufacturing techniques

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Graduate researchers (from left) Geraldine Paulus, Brian Timko, Darin Bellisario, and Qing Hua Wang gather research on carbon nanotubes in the Strano Research Group Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., in March. Nanotechnology is a special focus of the intelligence agencies of Russia and Iran.

China’s 863 program has as one focus "achieving mastery of key new materials and advanced manufacturing technologies to boost industrial competitiveness, particularly in the aviation and high-speed rail sectors," the report says. Russia and Iran are aggressive trying to collect information on another area of advanced materials development: nanotechnology."

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