The Great Heist

China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets

De: David R. Shedd, Andrew Badger

Narrado por: Fred Sanders

A definitive, headline-making exposé of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out the largest-scale theft of intellectual property, technology, and data in history—reshaping the global balance of power and redrawing the geopolitical map for decades to come

The Great Heist exposes China's unprecedented state-orchestrated espionage campaign to strip the United States and its allies of their economic, technological, and military edge. Through a coordinated “whole-of-society” strategy, the Chinese Communist Party has dramatically expanded its covert operations to acquire America’s most valuable innovations—stealing defense secrets and proprietary technology from companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Google, T-Mobile, and Tesla. By exploiting both human and cyber vulnerabilities, China has quietly looted the crown jewels of Western technology, saving itself trillions in R&D costs since the 1990s—with an ongoing brazenness fueled by decades of Western inaction.

Drawing on exclusive investigations and interviews with intelligence officers, corporate security teams, senior policymakers, and espionage victims, David R. Shedd and Andrew Badger reveal how industrial theft has fueled China’s meteoric rise from Third World backwater to global superpower—and present a bold strategic playbook to turn the tide in the greatest economic contest of our time.

Fascinating and well done

Detailed and thorough - this book helps explain one of the key issues defining geopolitics today!

Patterns

The accumulated
Anecdotes over 40 years. When the fact are with you speak softly as the authors do.

Great book must read for everyone!

Great book that has long been needed and is easily digestible. Great analysis of the problem from details and tradecraft all the way to aolutions.

Epic book. Truths you cannot ignore.

This book is fantastic. No matter what sector you work in and no matter your title, there is something crucial to be learned here. 20 years of documented IP theft are showcased across American corporations and cannot be ignored. Every organization should be reading this book. As technology advances, there are no excuses for Americans to be unprepared to defend our Crown Jewels.

Financial consequences from lost market share, reduced valuation, weakened pricing power, increased regulatory exposure, and long-term revenue erosion are at stake. These losses extend beyond a single company, reshaping industries, influencing national security outcomes, and altering the balance of global economic and strategic.

A must read!

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The authors misunderstanding of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) rules at the time of their publication and their recommendations in reference to that initiative are misleading...IMO