China Counter-Espionage Law risks for US companies spiked after CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis publicly named Chinese AI, semiconductor, and biotech firms as legitimate spy targets at a September 8 conference; Beijing formally responded on September 11, threatening enforcement action 12 days
I also do think Chinese penetration into the US and West generally is deeper than the other way around, I know there is a joke hiding in there but I am not looking.
I’d say it’s likely, because so much of our (US) infrastructure is run on a shoe-string budget and nobody is really ever held accountable for breaches; whereas I imagine in China heads would roll if, say, a foreign actor shut down the power grid.
Because the US loves histrionics, and keeping their people away from better tech that they can’t directly control.
I also do think Chinese penetration into the US and West generally is deeper than the other way around, I know there is a joke hiding in there but I am not looking.
What would you base that conclusion on?
I’d say it’s likely, because so much of our (US) infrastructure is run on a shoe-string budget and nobody is really ever held accountable for breaches; whereas I imagine in China heads would roll if, say, a foreign actor shut down the power grid.