U.S. Losing Valuable Foot Hold Over Technology From China’s Espionage

Something should be done about this no?

“EDITOR’S NOTE — China, ever more powerful, has become a major instigator of espionage in the United States. First of a two-part series on Beijing’s efforts, many successful, to steal American secrets and technology.

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He had been a seemingly all-American, clean-cut guy: No criminal record. Engaged to be married. A job teaching English overseas. In letters to the judge, loved ones described the 29-year-old Midwesterner as honest and caring — a good citizen. His fiancee called him “Mr. Patriot.”

Such descriptions make the one that culminated in the courtroom all the more baffling: Glenn Shriver was also a spy recruit for China. He took $70,000 from individuals he knew to be Chinese intelligence officers to try to land a job with a U.S. government agency — first the State Department and later the CIA.”

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