The NDAA once again provides an example of WFA (waste, fraud and abuse) - adding another bureaucracy sidecarred to USCYBERCOM and NSA to accomplish exactly nothing, as each service will do things their 'own' way, completely disregard any semblance of system trustworthiness and reciprocity; NIPR was compromised many, many years ago. all the while the US gooberment will still allow WOFE (wholly owned foreign entities) to purchase US land and allow visa students into classified areas thanks to FFRDCs and contractors that push Didn't Earn It initiatives.
We let them own land in the USA. We allow them to get "birthright citizenship", take the child back to China then bring them up in the CCP as a good little spy then they can move back anytime they want because they are a "citizen". We let them control major supply chains and routes.
Why. China is the enemy. They always have been.
concur. There is no such thing as 'partners' with an adversarial nation, lest home government are actual stakeholders in said partnership.
One thing I learned about during an InfraGard shindig (in 2017/18) is the 'thousand talents program' and it's far more sinister than a simple internet search provides.... If the IC can brief on this, then why is it still in operation
China has become wealthy and advanced because of Western "partnership" that should have never happened in the first place.
It is not a coincidence that most of their "advanced tech" looks like it is directly stolen from western nations.. Because it is.