The Great Heist
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The Great Heist

China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets

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eBook - ePub

The Great Heist

China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets

About this book

A definitive, headline-making exposé of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out the largest-scale theft of intellectual property, technology, and data in history—reshaping the global balance of power and redrawing the geopolitical map for decades to come

The Great Heist exposes China's unprecedented state-orchestrated espionage campaign to strip the United States and its allies of their economic, technological, and military edge. Through a coordinated “whole-of-society” strategy, the Chinese Communist Party has dramatically expanded its covert operations to acquire America’s most valuable innovations—stealing defense secrets and proprietary technology from companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Google, T-Mobile, and Tesla. By exploiting both human and cyber vulnerabilities, China has quietly looted the crown jewels of Western technology, saving itself trillions in R&D costs since the 1990s—with an ongoing brazenness fueled by decades of Western inaction.

Drawing on exclusive investigations and interviews with intelligence officers, corporate security teams, senior policymakers, and espionage victims, David R. Shedd and Andrew Badger reveal how industrial theft has fueled China’s meteoric rise from Third World backwater to global superpower—and present a bold strategic playbook to turn the tide in the greatest economic contest of our time.

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Information

Publisher
Harper
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9780063451865
Topic
History
Subtopic
Chinese History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Note to Readers
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. A Note from the Authors
  7. Prologue: The Billion-Dollar Thumb Drive
  8. Chapter 1: Foreshadowings
  9. Chapter 2: The Great Leap Everywhere
  10. Chapter 3: Inside China’s Intelligence Labyrinth
  11. Chapter 4: The Playbook Exposed
  12. Chapter 5: The Attack of the Clones
  13. Chapter 6: Crossed Circuits: The Electric Vehicle Wars
  14. Chapter 7: Chip Spy Wars
  15. Chapter 8: Telecommunications
  16. Chapter 9: Artificially Subsidized Intelligence
  17. Chapter 10: Sneak Attacks on the Department of Defense
  18. Chapter 11: Hard Lessons in Hypersonics and National Security
  19. Chapter 12: Financial Instruments of Destruction: Venture Capital and Private Equity
  20. Chapter 13: The Health Care Assault
  21. Chapter 14: The Elements of Infiltration: The American Chemical Sector
  22. Chapter 15: Energy: Gale Force Theft
  23. Chapter 16: The Seeds of Agri-Espionage
  24. Chapter 17: Inside the Situation Room: Stopping the Great Heist
  25. Chapter 18: Boardroom Blitz
  26. Conclusion
  27. Epilogue
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. Notes
  30. Index
  31. About the Authors
  32. Praise for The Great Heist
  33. Copyright
  34. About the Publisher