Xi Jinping, China’s president and People’s Liberation Army head, is doing everything possible to increase the military’s might and the country has not left any efforts to gain access to defence technologies from across the world by any means, according to the reports by Policy Research Group.
China has based its military prowess on technologies that it has appropriated and copied from other nations, not just the United States and other European nations. It hasn’t even hesitated to adopt Russian technological innovations. It is increasing its military power through both direct and indirect means. Large sums of money have also been invested in nations that lack the ability to repay the loans they owe to China.
It hasn’t even stopped utilising techniques like cyber theft or enlisting Chinese citizens to steal military warfare secrets from other nations.
China uses dynamic random access memory, aviation technologies and anti-submarine to collect crucial military secrets from the US, The Policy Research Group (POREG) according to the reports.
Over the past six years, there has been a continuing pattern of Chinese people being detained for disclosing military secrets.
Four Chinese nationals were detained on October 24 for allegedly sharing US military secrets with China illegally, according to the Policy Research Group (POREG). It was discovered that three of these nationalities worked for the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
Six academics were detained in 2021 when they were unable to explain how they were connected to a Chinese research centre. Gang Chen, a well-known Massachusetts Institute of Technology student, was one among those detained. Later on, he was exonerated of all previous accusations.
FBI agents detained PLA officers who were acting as typical graduate students in 2020. One of these, Xin Wang, admitted to being a PLA official while being questioned and was working as a major in a Chinese military research facility.
Another member of the Chinese PLA was detained because he had enrolled in Indiana University’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering to study artificial intelligence.
A Chinese embassy in Houston, Texas, in the Southern United States was compelled to close as a result of all these questionable actions. These PLA officials had all been sent abroad to pick up current skills and prepare for cutting-edge combat.