WASHINGTON, D.C. - China is recruiting U.S. scientists and researchers and encouraging them to transfer U.S. taxpayer funded intellectual property to China for Chinas own economic and military gain, says a new report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman. The report says a Chinese program launched in 2008 called the Thousand Talents Plan encourages researchers in the United States to transmit their knowledge to China in exchange for incentives that include money, research funding and lab space, and the country unfairly uses the American research and expertise it obtains for its own...