Chinese President Xi Raises the Stakes on Economic Espionage

Guest: Robert Daly, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the U.S., Wilson Center At the same time that we’re seeing a pause in escalation of the trade war between the US and China, we’re also seeing US official more openly condemn China for hacking and stealing American trade secrets. A massive breach of 500 million Marriott customer records is likely China’s doing, we learned last week. Top White House, trade and justice officials have recently called out China for conducting economic espionage. Dozens of America’s top China scholars issued a report recently on the many ways China is interfering with American society and government.