These days, China is implicated in the vast majority of commercial-espionage cases prosecuted by federal authorities in America
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The rise of China under Xi Jinping has reinvigorated talk about great-power rivalry. In the imagination of many Westerners, the Communist Party of China has taken the place of its Soviet counterpart; China’s Belt and Road projects and overseas students, and Huawei’s telecoms networks, recall cold-war scares. Often, though, the fevered discussion of China’s reach and influence lacks a clear understanding of the tools at its disposal, and of what the modern Communist Party really wants.
For years America’s spies and their allies took on their Chinese counterparts on the quiet, preferring not to disrupt diplomacy. In any case, this was a slippery adversary to grapple with. In “Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping”, Roger Faligot, a French author, relates the verdict of anspy-hunter: the trouble with the job is that most targets don’t look or act like spies.
Invoking a Chinese term, Mr Faligot describes this multipronged approach to intelligence collection as the “sea-lamprey strategy”. This “slippery, greenish fish blends with the seascape”, then latches on to its prey, “siphoning off its blood through its multiple orifices”, Mr Faligot writes evocatively. Too evocatively, perhaps. Readers of his engrossing book might be prone to find Chinese spies everywhere, lurking like “deep-water fish” in Chinese communities from Vancouver to Sydney.
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