There are few people who understand the workings of Chinese espionage as well as Nicholas Eftimiades.After a 34-year government career—including time at the CIA, Department of State, and Defense Intelligence Agency—he’s now a professor at Penn State University’s Homeland Security Program and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.“China uses what we call a whole-of-society approach to conducting espionage. … We’re not talking about thousands [of people]. We’re talking about tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people engaged globally in carrying out the CCP’s will,” Eftimiades says.CHAPTER TITLES0:00:01 – Introduction to China’s Espionage Approach0:01:04 – Scale and Strategic Threat of Chinese Espionage0:02:33 – Incentive Structures and Whole-of-Society Approach0:04:58 – Case Study: Professor Charles Lieber and Technology Theft0:07:07 – Legal Implications and Punishment of Academic Espionage0:09:36 – Technology Leakage and National Security Concerns0:12:00 – Understanding Counterintelligence0:14:16 – Transnational Repression and Global Influence Operations0:16:33 – Case Study: Fang Fang and Long-Term Asset Development0:17:52 – Strategic Responses and Allied Cooperation0:20:37 – The CCP’s Obsession with Falun Gong0:22:12 – Challenges in Countering Chinese Espionage and Call to Action
