SHEDD, DAVID R / BADGER, ANDREW
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 historyreshaping 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 Americas most valuable innovationsstealing 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 1990swith 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 Chinas meteoric rise from Third World backwater to global superpowerand present a bold strategic playbook to turn the tide in the greatest economic contest of our time.
