MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Chinese companies are gaining an unfair advantage with the state’s backing according to [PDF] the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s 2012 Report to Congress. Released yesterday the federally-mandated annual assessment of Sino-American relations and the associated national security implications maintains that "Chinese actors are the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage " which has created "a growing and persistent threat to US economic security." While the Commission’s report covers a range of issues there appears to be particular concern over China’s "increasingly creative and resourceful" cyber spying -- which could also affect the ...