Good article. Here's an excerpt:
“Today, I want to focus on two aspects of the challenge we face. The first is how China jumpstarts its technology initiatives by stealing our technology. Second, I want to explain why China’s current focus on dominating 5G technology is of central concern.
The ability of totalitarian countries to engage in central economic planning can, at times, appear to be an advantage, especially when mobilizing the kind of technological blitzkrieg we see unfolding today.
The downside is that central planning suppresses technological innovation. Breakthrough ideas arise in free societies like ours, which have long led the way in cutting-edge technological development
The Chinese are trying to have it both ways. While orchestrating a centrally-planned campaign to dominate key technologies, they are attempting to capture the benefits of our free society by outright stealing our technology. The stealing of technology is not a sideshow. It undergirds and propels their efforts.
As John Demers, our Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division observed, “China wants the fruits of America’s brainpower to harvest the seeds of its planned economic dominance.”
