last month\u2019s summit<\/a> between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump meant to stabilise relations.<\/p>\n\u201cChina has orchestrated a highly strategic, highly accelerated and multifaceted effort to steal commercial and technological secrets from the United States and other Western nations,\u201d said David Shedd, former acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe campaign, which blends cyber espionage, human intelligence, academic collaboration, and commercial investments, has been instrumental in propelling China\u2019s rapid economic and military rise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some witnesses and lawmakers pushed back, however, arguing that although Beijing\u2019s aggressive campaigns to acquire foreign secrets must be checked, any broad-brush approach targeting students, property owners and researchers of Chinese descent as well as private Chinese companies ultimately undermines US security.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should use a scalpel, not a sledgehammer,\u201d said John Yang, president and executive director of civic group Asian Americans Advancing Justice. \u201cAsian-Americans no longer feel safe because of their race or ethnicity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States has been asleep for decades as China undercut US economic strength by stealing ideas, technologies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,2477,53,25,46163,387,46162,46168,46167,625,4210,46165,46166,46164,2448,214],"class_list":["post-86233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-alibaba","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-asian-americans","tag-china","tag-chinese-americans","tag-communist-party","tag-david-shedd","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-house-select-committee-on-china","tag-john-yang","tag-michael-lucci","tag-ro-khanna","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}