The United States has paid little heed to the growing Chinese intelligence threat, according to economist, China expert, and author Clyde Prestowitz.
“One of the things that bothers me in the U.S.–China relationship is the ignorance of the U.S. side on the … limits to which the Chinese will go to obtain intelligence,” Prestowitz told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program on Sept. 20.
He further pointed to the recent report on a Chinese entity’s purchase of farmland near a U.S. Air Force base in North Dakota.
“The Chinese have been buying up land near American bases. That land is not being bought in order to grow wheat. They’re watching the bases,” he noted….