Not really.  But a title like this always grabs the reader’s attention.  Worked on you, didn’t it?

American’s can be pretty naive, overly trusting and even downright lazy in their due diligence when doing business in an emerging market like China and India and in addressing some of the commercial/corporate espionage risks involved.

See/read this China Law Blog post, China: Do The Walls Have Ears? See also this Times of India article, Corporate Espionage: India Inc. Means Business and this Asia Times article, India’s Growing Corporate Spy Threat.

Your thoughts?

Did you know and appreciate how big of a deal corporate espionage has become not only in China and India but right here at home/in the West?   See, e.g., this recent Wall Street Journal article on this very topic, Hugger-Mugger in the Executive Suite.   Don’t think this stuff does not happen here/in the US.  It does.  All the time.  In my other life as a practicing attorney, I worked on several civil cases that involved commercial dumpster diving allegations.  At times I felt that I was in an Austin Powers movie.  Yeeeeaahhh  Baaabbbyyyy!

– Professor Carr