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Michael Green, a CSIS Senior Adviser, was appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room, “Claims of China Spying on U.S. Soil."
February 7, 2008

Associated Programs:

Japan Chair

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Asia

Experts :

Michael J. Green

Excerpt:

BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well Wolf, one congressman told me the U.S. loses $62 billion a year in intellectual property theft at the hands of the Chinese. And we're now told the Chinese have a huge infiltration network tapping American business and military secrets. [...]

MICHAEL GREEN, FORMER NSC OFFICIAL: The Chinese do have hacker units. The PLA and other organs of the Chinese government see cyberspace as a battlefield in the event of conflict with the U.S., Japan or any other country.

TODD: But Michael Green says it's foolish to look at every Chinese student or businessman in the U.S. and see a spy. Others experts say America has to share the blame. It doesn't produce enough engineers they say, so ambitious American companies recruit from where else, China.

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