27-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
The Self-Driving Truck Startup That Siphoned Trade Secrets to Chinese Companies
A week after one of America's largest self-driving truck companies promised the U.S. government it would stop sharing sensitive technology with Chinese partners, TuSimple TSPH -3.27%decrease; red down pointing triangle transferred a trove of data to a Beijing-owned firm.
'They want a lot of details,' Xiaoling Han, a U.S.-based TuSimple Holdings employee, said to a colleague. A leading Chinese commercial truck manufacturer, Foton, sought the data from TuSimple's many test drives around Texas. 'It is pretty time consuming,' Han wrote in a February 2022 chat exchange seen by The Wall Street Journal.
