Did Beijing Plan to Use the Pandemic to Steal Data on a Global Scale?

China’s near total access to Americans’ personal data poses a clear and present national security risk

Workers in protective suits keep watch on a street during a lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China, on April 16, 2022. Aly Song/Reuters

Commentary

Could the CCP virus and its impact on Western economies and societies have actually been planned to facilitate China’s ongoing bid to rule the world through the capture and manipulation of billions of people’s individual data?