The Expanding Front: CCP Espionage and Strategic Ambition Since 2020

China’s aim is not only to catch up with the West, but to surpass it, in hopes of controlling future standards of global innovation.

A paramilitary policeman stands guard in Tiananmen Square in on March 15, 2019. Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images

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The FBI opens a new counterintelligence case involving the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) approximately every 10 hours. This extraordinary pace is driving more than 700 active cases each year, underscoring what U.S. authorities describe as the largest and most persistent foreign intelligence challenge in modern American history.