I did no such thing. You are saying that this engineer, who is obviously talented, should never again be hired in his field, because anyone who hires him will only hire him to steal this (now quite ancient) tech and not for asking him to continue to innovate or even just be a productive worker.

So do you really believe this or is this just an anti-China thing? Fun Fact: Many innovators in Silicon valley did the exact same thing, discovering something at one company, and then taking it to another where it was more fully developed. They then went on to continue to innovate completely new things. And sometimes there were lawsuits flying around about who stole which IP, yet the same workers continued to be hired by tech companies, and people didn't automatically assume that anyone who hired them subsequently was participating in IP theft.

I guarantee you that former Uber self-driving engineers are still gainfully employed, many in the field of self-driving cars, and no one is accusing their new employers of trying to steal IP from Google.

How do you justify applying this double standard?