Ep. 55 | China's Great Heist

According to The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets—a new book by David Shedd and Andrew Badger—one critical but often overlooked explanation for China’s meteoric rise has been the scale, scope, and pace of its unprecedented state-sponsored espionage campaign. This effort has been specifically designed to strip the United States of our economic, technological, and military edge, and we have not been doing nearly enough to stop it. David Shedd, a Vandenberg Coalition Advisory Board member and former deputy director and acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, joins Vandenberg Senior Policy Director Corban Teague to discuss China’s campaign to steal America’s secrets and what we can do to put a stop to it.

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(1:17) Writing the Book

(2:33) China’s Pursuit of Modernity and U.S. Responses

(8:33) Chinese Espionage as Part of Made in China 2025

(14:47) Chinese Spycraft Tactics

(20:07) “Capture, Cage, and Kill”

(25:25) What Can China Do With U.S. Data?

(30:12) Is “A Decent Peace” with China Possible?

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