SAN FRANCISCO — An immigrant businessman. A powerful U.S. corporation. And the secret to making everyday products from paper to paint a bright, luminous white.

Those are the elements of a high-stakes trial beginning this week in San Francisco federal court, where combustible racial politics and the strained relations between the U.S. and China are inextricably linked to economic espionage charges levied against an East Bay engineer.

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