{"id":52632,"date":"2010-03-17T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=52632"},"modified":"2010-03-17T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:58:25","slug":"china-to-put-rio-tinto-staff-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/03\/china-to-put-rio-tinto-staff-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"China to Put Rio Tinto Staff on Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four Rio Tinto employees who have been charged with stealing industrial secrets and bribery will be tried on Monday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/mar\/17\/china-trial-rio-tinto\"><strong>the Guardian reports<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Australian government in particular has been angered by the arrest of Rio&#8217;s staff last July, because one of those detained was Australian national Stern Hu, who was in charge of sensitive iron-ore price negotiations between China and global producers.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all criminal cases that go to trial in China end in conviction. The maximum penalty for commercial espionage is seven years in prison, if the case is found to have caused &#8220;extreme damage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The four are accused of using improper means to obtain commercial secrets from the country&#8217;s steel industry, and using that information as a bargaining chip to drive up the price that China pays for its iron ore imports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/rio-tinto\">more about the Rio Tinto case <\/a>via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four Rio Tinto employees who have been charged with stealing industrial secrets and bribery will be tried on Monday, the Guardian reports: The Australian government in particular has been angered by the arrest of Rio&#8217;s staff last July, because one of those detained was Australian national Stern Hu, who was in charge of sensitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,2,10,1051],"tags":[7706,319,5713],"class_list":["post-52632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-economy","category-law","category-top-article","tag-australia-relations","tag-espionage","tag-rio-tinto","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China to Put Rio Tinto Staff on Trial<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/03\/china-to-put-rio-tinto-staff-on-trial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China to Put Rio Tinto Staff on Trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The four Rio Tinto employees who have been charged with stealing industrial secrets and bribery will be tried on Monday, the Guardian reports: The Australian government in particular has been angered by the arrest of Rio&#8217;s staff last July, because one of those detained was Australian national Stern Hu, who was in charge of sensitive [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/03\/china-to-put-rio-tinto-staff-on-trial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-03-17T21:30:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-03-17T21:58:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/03\/china-to-put-rio-tinto-staff-on-trial\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/03\/china-to-put-rio-tinto-staff-on-trial\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sophie Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/7f19e31b674d57a7dc20aab8e908c663\"},\"headline\":\"China to Put Rio Tinto Staff on Trial\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-03-17T21:30:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-03-17T21:58:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/03\/china-to-put-rio-tinto-staff-on-trial\/\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Australia relations\",\"espionage\",\"Rio Tinto\"],\"articleSection\":[\"China &amp; 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