Talent Raids Trigger National‑Security Laws

When firms tied to rival states aggressively recruit engineers from sensitive sectors (semiconductors, advanced OS/firmware), target governments increasingly treat such hiring as a national‑security threat and respond with criminal investigations, indictments, and restrictive hiring rules. Those enforcement moves can escalate cross‑border tech competition into legal confrontations, chilling commercial collaboration and reshaping where companies locate R&D or how they staff teams. — If governments make talent recruitment a security crime, policymakers must reconcile innovation policy, labour mobility, and national security — affecting corporate hiring, visa policy, and geopolitics in tech.