How Chinese espionage eroded U.S. power

China’s technological rise has been one of the United States’ biggest preoccupations for nearly a decade, across both Democratic and Republican administrations.

In their new book, The Great Heist, David Shedd and Andrew Badger—former officials at the Defense Intelligence Agency—detail the years of espionage that enabled that rise. Through court documents, interviews, and even fictional scenarios, the pair outline the scale of China’s theft of U.S. intellectual property, aiming to galvanize the national conversation and warn Washington to act before it’s too late.

The problem, however, is that the current Trump administration appears to be moving largely in the opposite direction—allowing the sale of some advanced semiconductor chips to China, removing key officials at the Commerce Department dedicated to combating the threats posed by Chinese technology, dismantling much of the U.S. cyber posture against Chinese hacking, and publishing a national defense strategy that downplays the China threat.

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