Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are setting up firms across the Pacific, only to find that any investment with Chinese ties is a hard sell.

President Biden signed a law banning nearly 4 million federal employees from having TikTok on their government phones, over national security concerns. This week, New Jersey and Ohio joined at least 20 other states in restricting access to TikTok, amid fears that the Chinese government could use the app to spy on Americans. Will California jump on the TikTok ban bandwagon?

Peter Kim, of Ben Lomond, stole trade secrets before he left the San Jose tech company, then used them while working at Chinese startup.

Federal prosecutors said Jonathan Yet Wing Soong funneled payments for Army aviation software to a restricted Beijing University.

Between 2011 and 2019, Racho Jordanov, as President and CEO of JHL Biotech, obtained and possessed confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information from Genentech, and used it to accelerate the timeline for and to reduce the costs of JHL Biotech’s development and production of copies of Genentech products.

Officials said the social network had failed to block objectionable content, a sign of the sacrifices it must make to remain in the market.

The Tesla boss and digital prankster is striking a chord, at a time of disillusionment with the tech industry and its leading tycoons.