I wouldn’t be surprised if all the traffic from systems hacked in Turkey, Europe and the US went to China. My friends in the military say the Chinese have attempted to hack into DoD systems over 10,000 times per year.
The key is not only to copy our advanced technology, thereby obviating their own R&D costs, but also to develop systems that defeat that technology and sell those systems to the highest bidder. This means we could spend billions on a military product that would essentially become ineffective.
In my opinion, this is all towards the goal of supplanting the US as the superpower. The PRC doesn’t want to destroy us yet because then they would inherit a burden. They want to do all they can to marginalize the USA so that they can start calling the shots, whether it’s the Spratley Islands, Law of the Seas, support for rogue regimes, etc.
Of course I could just be paranoid; my parents decided to become American citizens after they heard what happen to their families in China after 1949.
I think you’re absolutely right.
So if you’re ethnicly Chinese, what do you think, should we have the presumption that Chinese are more likely to be spies for PRC?