The US tech giant has reportedly been downscaling its engineering team worldwide as it seeks to move away from old-fashioned software to cloud services. The company has several research and development facilities in China, including in Beijing, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Shanghai. The center in Shenzhen, set up in 2002, was the first. Oracle's China layoff plan comes amid escalating political pressure for US companies to decouple from China, the world's second-largest economy. The US-China economic and security review commission issued a new report yesterday accusing Chinese companies of using various methods to steal technology, intellectual property and know-how from US firms. It's not the first time Oracle is rumored to be letting go parts of its China team. In January 2017, days before Donald Trump swore in, Chinese media reported that Oracle was cutting 200 R&D jobs in Beijing. Editor: Nadine Freischlad Write to Luna Lin at