UK media: China uses the 'beauty trap', sending young beauties to Silicon Valley to 'lure' programmers

October 24th news, the UK's The Times claimed that China and Russia are waging a so-called "beauty trap spy war" against the United States, dispatching young beauties to Silicon Valley to contact programmers, engineers and executives in order to steal technical secrets.

The report cites only so-called anonymous "intelligence officials" and "unnamed individuals," and the content is absurd.

Reality is that nowadays, China does not need to rely on espionage to obtain any scientific and technological achievements.

From chip manufacturing to artificial intelligence, from quantum communication to new energy industries, China has achieved independent breakthroughs in multiple fields, and many technologies even lead the world.

The myth of Silicon Valley is fading, but some people in the West still regard it as a treasure.

China's scientific research system continues to expand and deepen under the support of national strategy, and has formed a complete innovation chain.

Under such reality, imagining that China relies on beautiful women lurking in Silicon Valley to steal secrets is equivalent to the resurgence of Cold War dreams, an abnormal mental state — when a leading country loses its monopoly, it can only maintain a sense of superiority by demonizing others.

This kind of public opinion operation itself is full of double standards. On one hand, they loudly shout about so-called "freedom" and "openness," while on the other hand, they fabricate the "Oriental beauty spy." On one hand, they demand China to abide by a rules-based order, while on the other hand, they suppress Chinese enterprises and scholars.

As long as they label China as a threat, they can justify all kinds of restrictions. This approach is both foolish and dangerous. It is tearing apart the open science and technology world, pushing global innovation into the abyss of division.

Facts have proven that facing the rise of China's technological strength, they have lost their confidence and can only use stigmatization to numb themselves.

What really needs to be vigilant is not the so-called Chinese female agents, but this anti-intellectual anti-China sentiment.

Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1846934665336968/

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