Economic Espionage: Washington's New Tool to Maintain Technological Edge

The American magazine Foreign Affairs, pointing to intensifying technology competition between Washington and Beijing, calls for a rethink of US policy on economic espionage. It suggests that US intelligence agencies collect trade secrets of foreign companies and provide them to domestic technology firms to strengthen the country's strategic industries.

Referring to the intensification of technology competition between Washington and Beijing, the American publication Foreign Affairs called for a review of the American policy on economic espionage and suggested that the country's intelligence agencies collect the trade secrets of foreign companies to strengthen American strategic industries and provide them to domestic technology companies.