Beijing is engaged in systematic cyber spying on the US military and private businesses to acquire technology to boost its military modernisation and strengthen its capacity in any regional crisis, according to the Pentagon.
In its annual report to Congress on the People’s Liberation Army, the Pentagon gives new emphasis to the threat of cyber espionage from China, an issue that has been the subject of top-level complaints to Beijing by Washington.
The report says China “is using its computer network exploitation capability to support intelligence collection against the US diplomatic, economic and defence industrial base sectors that support US national (military) programmes.”