US congressman Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told members of the European Parliament in Brussels last week that if the European Union continued "the confusion and the muddling of the debate" on the US snooping on European citizens and institutions, it may help China absolutely steal us blind when it comes to intellectual property of European and American companies "
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20131224000109&cid=1101&MainCatID=11
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/531740/20131224/china-spying-espionage-congressman-mike-rogers-bogeyman.htm
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