You read the stories all over and over. The establishment media flood you with stories of how dangerous Chinese economic espionage is and how large its scope is. But who really spies the most?
The real budgets of the most powerful secret services which are always connected to clientelistic groups of respective countries are far more larger than you would expect and is admitted.
According the the Cornell Law School, economic espionage is the unlawful or clandestine targeting or acquisition of sensitive financial, trade, or economic policy information; proprietary economic information; or technological information.
So what country conducts massive espionage on other countries?
History of the economic espionage of the USA and China
In the 19th century, the US economic espionage was the most massive as the US lacked basic research and sent their brightest brains overseas to study. But they were good at applied research so spying in this area was a rational thing.
The developed European countries were the main target and the US has successfully stolen a huge portion of intellectual property.
China was a developing country and went from turmoil to turmoil. After gaining some inner capable leadership and starter being prosperous, then enormously huge espionage started taking place. No matter what their hand could touch, no matter how unuseful for them (they didn’t have the capacity to use it) it could have been, they took it.
China is doing now what the US was doing back in the 19th century and early 20th century. They are building their country.
The USA didn’t spy on the Soviet block but on its European friends
You must have heard a lot of stories about general spying during the Cold War and all the content is a matter of the reality.
Yet don’t forget about the USA’s “allies”. The axis Paris-Berlin doesn’t like the US much. And I believe general espionage is a factor. The former German chancellor compared the NSA to Stasi. I will tell you the reality. If we aggregate, the spying had been taking place since the total occupation of Germany.
But don’t slip into the general political espionage. We are talking about technology, financial data, and economic policies.
And what do you think? The US, compared to the Soviet block, had access to spying to a larger extent due to the possibility that people could have been moving more freely.
And they had reason to spy, contrary to the backward Soviet block. Advanced technology, developed economies, and interconnections between the countries.
It same goes for spying on countries the US controls economically (thus politically), such as Japan or South Korea.
And the winner is…
Let’s put it straight! Who is the economic, scientific, and technological leader? The USA. What spying agency has the largest operational scope? Of course, the CIA by a landslide.
Who wants to be the most advanced militarily? The USA. Who is the most capable of using the stolen information? The USA.
So you don’t have to be a nuclear scientist to make the conclusion the USA has the biggest economic espionage operations.
They will tell you China is the worst. No, it is the USA.
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