China Conducts Extensive Espionage Against U.S. Secrets

In their December 2025 book The Great Heist, former DIA officials David Shedd and Andrew Badger document years of Chinese espionage against U.S. technology and intellectual property, citing court records, interviews, and the 2015 OPM breach that exposed 22–23 million personnel files. They and Foreign Policy note the FBI's estimate of about $600 billion in annual IP losses and warn that recent U.S. policy shifts have weakened cyber defenses.
Scoring Rationale
Strong sourcing and national-security scope underline high impact, but the book compiles existing cases rather than presenting novel definitive evidence.
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