As war clouds loom over the Western Pacific, there are alarming signs that America has already lost the intelligence war to China.
Communist China’s intent to forcibly overturn America’s historic dominance in the waters of east Asia, sooner rather than later, is not in doubt. The People’s Liberation Army’s most recent maneuvers around Taiwan, involving more than a hundred PLA combat aircraft and over 30 warships, were condemned by the Pentagon. The problem for Washington is that Beijing doesn’t care.
What’s worse is the media is even starting to notice that Western counterintelligence is simply overwhelmed by the scale and intensity of Beijing’s espionage. At the beginning of this year, the normally tightlipped National Security Agency entered the debate by issuing a cybersecurity advisory regarding a Chinese state cyber actor, Volt Typhoon. These hackers spent…
