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A call to disrupt the People’s Republic of China’s economic espionage campaign against the United States was sounded in a new report by a Washington, D.C., technology think tank.
“China’s campaign of economic espionage against the United States spans cyber intrusions, insider theft, and technology transfer disguised as collaboration,” declared the report written by intelligence analyst and applied historian Darren E. Tromblay and published by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF).
“Washington must recognize that Beijing is operating an elaborate espionage ecosystem and take strategic measures to disrupt it,” it added.
China’s espionage ecosystem is systemic and strategic, it explained. From state intelligence agencies to nominally private firms, Beijing coordinates cyber, human, and corporate channels to steal U.S. industrial and defense technologies....
Most Advanced Espionage System on Earth
China’s approach to espionage is more than spycraft. It’s an entire ecosystem. The Chinese system is fundamentally different from other U.S. adversaries in both scale and integration, observed Michael Bell, CEO of Suzu Testing, a provider of AI-powered cybersecurity services, in Las Vegas.
“Russia conducts opportunistic espionage through intelligence services,” he told TechNewsWorld. “China operates a whole-of-society approach where companies, universities, and talent programs function as coordinated collection platforms.”
“Based on the cases we’ve been seeing and industry analysis, no other nation-state has achieved the level of integration where a student visa, university partnership, and a state-owned enterprise investment can all be vectors for the same operation,” he said.
