China Gains Stealth Access to World's Hotels

SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - June 08, 2016) - The Strategic News Service (SNS) Global Consortium, Inventing Nations vs. Nation-sponsored Theft of Intellectual Property (INVNT/IP), has just released findings from a previously secret research project, "Operation BedBug." These discoveries, featured in a special Fox News report last Thursday, describe a massive global acquisition of hotels funded by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

"The risk of collusion and spying on behalf of the Chinese government is so high that US government representatives are not allowed to hold sensitive meetings in locations owned by the Chinese government, known to be the planet's greatest perpetrator of nation-sponsored IP theft," noted INVNT/IP Director of Research Evan Anderson in describing China's new campaign.

"Operation BedBug" is one aspect of the culmination of 5 years of economic research done by INVNT/IP in tracking the dynamics and threat environment of nation-sponsored intellectual property theft. The firm's just-released white paper, "Theft Nation," has been described as the "best available description of the Chinese national economy" by the United States Department of Justice.

An interactive map of potentially compromised hotel locations can be found at the INVNT/IP website, detailing brand names and management, and showing political connections to Chinese government families.

"We will not be hosting our technology or business conferences at any of the hotels on this new map," SNS CEO Mark Anderson said this week. The company recently joined the White House and the US State Department in moving events from the Waldorf Astoria after its recent purchase by China's Anbang Insurance Group.

INVNT/IP is a global consortium of private firms seeking to reduce nation-sponsored theft of intellectual property since its founding in 2011. INVNT/IP conducts research and advocacy work to protect inventing companies and countries from nation state-actors and their affiliates. INVNT/IP staff give cabinet-level briefings to corporate officers and leaders in all branches of government in the US, UK, EU, and Australia. Corporate members receive access to all levels of INVNT/IP research, for the purpose of better protecting trade secrets from nation-sponsored theft.

Corporate membership in INVNT/IP may be applied for at www.invntip.com/join.

INVNT/IP is a Global Consortium controlled by Strategic News Service. Strategic News Service was founded by Mark Anderson in 1995 as the first subscription-based online news service. SNS subscribers include top managers at technology and finance companies worldwide, including Oracle, Microsoft, HP, Dell, Cisco, Intel, Google, British Telecom, SpaceX, Amazon, Telstra, and others.

SNS has been operating the annual Future in Review Conference since 2003. FiRe exposes world experts and participants to critically important new ideas in science and technology, producing an accurate portrait of the future and creating technology solutions to current local and global problems. FiRe 2016 will take place September 27-30, 2016, at the Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley in Park City, Utah. For more information and to register, go to www.futureinreview.com.

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