Developments in China's Cyber and Nuclear Capabilities

The government is finally becoming more clear-minded about the risks of Chinese cyber espionage and is rushing towards solutions. And while there is no doubting the hard work and patriotism of those behind these efforts, it is not clear we are heading in the right direction. The threat of Chinese espionage is so critical that the commander of our military cyber defenses has called it the "the biggest transfer of wealth through theft and piracy in the history of mankind." It is so bad, in fact, the United States may need to regulate the private sector and our companies need to submit to government monitoring. But the threat has not [been] bad enough to interest the government in the history of how we got here, or enough to go on the record about the threat, to take risks to share needed information or be willing to tell the Chinese to back off. I call these the government's Four Silences. Added together I fear they are driving us to defeat.