[canuck_conservative]

Communist China also has a large and active spying operation ongoing in the US and other Western countries, trying to get their hands on any economic and military secrets they can, to turn around and use against us.

Not exactly the behavior of a "benign" country, is it?

[Kuehn12]

Everyone spies, don't fool yourself keeping secrets and stealing everyone else is the way of the world. China lacks technology and the patients to develop it on their own, so they will go out and steal it. I don't fault them for trying given a cost/benefit analysis. Take a giant leap in technology now versus waiting for your own technology to catch up with the west, if it ever could.

Question, When in recent history have the Chinese turn any weapon on us indigenous or otherwise? You make it sound like we are already at war with them.