Shannon You’s story is about so much more than just CocaCola’s other secret recipe. Her getrichquick scheme cast new light on how industrial espionage has become a big part of China’s economic growth, and provided fuel to those who accuse the country's Thousand Talents Program of incentivizing technology theft on an unprecedented scale.

Bloomberg reporters dug through reams of documents and FBI interrogation footage to reveal how a middleaged chemical engineer's story became a parable of USChina economic tensions.

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