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Chinese Spying: A Huge Effort and a Huge Success

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Chinese Spying: A Huge Effort and a Huge Success
Sailors prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from a China-claimed high-altitude balloon for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek on Feb. 10, 2023. Ryan Seelbach/U.S. Navy via Getty Images
Grant Newsham
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Chinese spy balloons are one small part of an enormous, “whole of society,” decades-long espionage campaign that communist China has been conducting against the United States. And unfortunately, it has been successful.

Grant Newsham
Grant Newsham
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Grant Newsham is a retired U.S. Marine officer and a former U.S. diplomat and business executive with many years in the Asia/Pacific region. He is a senior fellow with the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies (Tokyo) and Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the best selling book “When China Attacks: A Warning to America.”
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