中国抨击特朗普政府制裁五家与前谷歌工程师有关的中国公司的举动，该工程师被指控窃取知识产权，中国将此举称为“恶劣”。国务院周一宣布制裁，称这些公司与中国公民丁林伟有关，丁林伟今年早些时候被判定从谷歌窃取与人工智能相关的商业秘密。
China slammed the Trump administration’s move to sanction five Chinese companies linked to a former Google engineer accused of intellectual property theft, calling it “egregious.”The State Department announced the sanctions on Monday, stating the firms are connected to Chinese national Linwei Ding, who was convicted earlier this year of stealing AI-related trade secrets from Google.
中国商务部在一份声明中表示，实施这些制裁“严重损害”中国企业的合法权益，该声明由美联社转载。“这一行为的性质恶劣。中国企业坚决反对。”商务部敦促美国“纠正其错误做法”，并补充说北京将“采取必要措施”，美联社补充道。
The imposition of these sanctions “severely harms the legitimate rights and interests” of Chinese businesses, the country’s commerce ministry said in a statement, shared by The Associated Press. “The nature of this act is egregious. China firms opposes this.”The ministry pressed the U.S. to “correct its erroneous practice,” adding Beijing would “take necessary measures,” the news wire added.
受制裁实体包括上海之算科技有限公司，这是一家由丁林伟创立的软件平台公司，以及中国风险投资公司奇点汇，国务院称奇点汇为之算提供了种子资金。另外三家关联风险投资公司也被制裁。
Among the sanctioned entities included Shanghai Zhisuan Technology Co., a software platform company founded by Ding, and the China-based venture capital firm MiraclePlus, which the State Department said gave seed capital for Zhisuan. Three other affiliated venture capital firms were also sanctioned.
奇点汇周二发表声明，否认投资了之算，写道：“我们正在与相关各方积极沟通，希望尽快解除制裁。”“我们相信，存在公平合理的流程和制度，通过诚实沟通，此事最终将得到妥善解决，”公司补充道。
MiraclePlus released a statement on Tuesday denying it invested in Zhisuan, writing, “We are actively communicating with the relevant parties and hope to lift the sanctions as soon as possible.”“We believe that there are fair and reasonable processes and systems in place, and that through honest communication, this matter will ultimately be resolved appropriately,” the company added.
丁林伟被判定犯有七项经济间谍罪和七项窃取商业秘密罪，此前他从谷歌窃取了超过2000页的机密信息。
Ding was found guilty of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of thefts of trade secrets, after stealing more than 2,000 pages of confidential information from Google.
美国长期以来一直是发展新兴技术的领导者。这种窃取商业秘密的行为对美国的经济、外交政策和国家安全利益构成严重威胁，”国务院发言人托马斯·皮戈特周一在一份声明中写道。
The United States has long been a leader in developing emerging technology. This theft of trade secrets is a serious threat to U.S. economic, foreign policy, and national security interests,” State Department spokesperson Thomas Pigott wrote in a statement Monday.
据检方称，丁某在辞职前不到两周，将这批包含谷歌芯片信息以及用于将芯片连接成超级计算机的软件信息的文件下载到个人电脑。随后，他告诉潜在投资者，他可以利用谷歌的技术构建人工智能超级计算机。
According to prosecutors, Ding downloaded the tranche of documents, which contained information about Google’s chips and the software used to connect them into a supercomputer, to his personal computer less than two weeks before he resigned. He then told potential investors he could build an AI supercomputer using Google’s technology.
旧金山的一名联邦法官后来撤销了间谍罪指控，但判处丁某近一年监禁，并处以两年监督释放。美联社参与了报道。
A federal judge in San Francisco later dropped the espionage charges, but sentenced Ding nearly one year in prison, with two years of supervised release. The Associated Press contributed reporting.