U.S. Media Expose: Pentagon Preparing to Send Spies to Steal China’s Economic Intelligence and Technology
To publicly boast about the act of dispatching spies to a foreign nation is an audacity only America could display with such brazenness.
On the 21st, The Washington Post cited sources stating that the Pentagon is developing a new espionage initiative—deploying U.S. agents disguised as businessmen and other “non-official personnel” into China to extract economic intelligence or advanced technologies.
Although the Pentagon has denied the report, its rebuttal appears notably weak, given that the practice of sending operatives to China for intelligence gathering has long been an open secret.
In September, Jacob Stokes, a former White House official and deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative at the American think tank Center for New American Security, advocated in a report that if the United States falls behind China in the race for artificial general intelligence (AGI), it should resort to stealing Chinese technology—and if theft proves impossible, then bombing Chinese data centers.
Earlier, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo famously declared: “We lie, we cheat, we steal… that is how America keeps pushing forward.”
As both former CIA director and Secretary of State, Pompeo openly acknowledged the United States’ reliance on deception, manipulation, and theft. Under such circumstances, the Pentagon’s denial of deploying agents to China appears increasingly hollow.
The mindset of avoiding direct competition by resorting to theft or violence, coupled with senior U.S. officials formally recommending such tactics in policy reports, reveals a deep-seated anxiety over maintaining technological supremacy. It suggests that the United States is acutely aware that its current technological edge is unsustainable—and thus resorts to justifying unethical means to preserve dominance.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1879747050229833/
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