Research Question: What the U.S Should Do to Penetrate or Counter Prc Attempts to Obtain Us Military or Defense Technology?

Research Question: What the U.S should do to penetrate or counter PRC attempts to obtain US military or defense technology?

Introduction:

"The intelligence services of the People's Republic of China pose a significant threat both to the national security and to the compromise of U.S. critical national assets," said William Carter, an FBI spokesman

On the long run, it is now very possible to consider credible a scenario where China's economical power exceeds that of the U.S. Therefore, we can expect that the strategic competition between China and the U.S - the only superpower - intensifies in the years to come.

Adm. Robert Willard, the new commander of U.S. Pacific Command, said that "China has exceeded most of our intelligence estimates of their military capability and capacity every year. They've grown at an unprecedented rate in those capabilities."

Thanks to its export oriented strategies, and double digit growth for more than a decade, China becomes a great power and invests massively in order to modernize its military and defense capabilities. Recently, the People Liberation Army (PLA) changed its doctrine, from "Active defense" to "Local wars under high technology" in order to be able to "project its power" overseas. Recent arguments with Japan regarding the Diao yu (Senkoku Islands) confirmed that China plans to expand its "sphere of influence" in the Pacific, and may try challenge the U.S hegemony in this area.

In order to modernize its military and defense capabilities, China increased its military spending by 7.5 % in 2010. However, despite its greatest efforts and investments, the military gap with the U.S is still huge. Regarding its economical system, China is also still very much depending on "state capitalism" and cannot really compete with the level of entrepreneurship which has always nurtured and fueled the U.S economical growth.

Therefore, we will argue that the PRC has launched for more than three decades - an extensive program of espionage activities - in order to create an asymmetrical advantage to the Chinese and challenge the U.S economical and military capacities. This is not the first time, a "challenger" carry out such a program in order to gain substantial advantages by using "cheaper methods". During the cold war, and especially in the 70s, Soviet Intelligence carried out similar clandestine effort to obtain technical and scientific knowledge. In our discussion, we will try to demonstrate the importance of the Chinese Intelligence activities in the U.S and try to define how we could counter such "offensive".

As per Prof.Ogden; HUMINT, does include counterintelligence(CI), specifically counterespionage and offensive counterintelligence operations (OFCO), therefore, we will first of all, provide information related to the Chinese Intelligence operations, then we will concentrate on the Mission and Activities of a Chinese Task Force(CTF) , dedicated to fight against Chinese Intelligence networks in the U.S. Indeed, with a specific focus on the HUMINT Operations managed by our suggested new organization (CTF).

THE CHINA THREAT

I.A The use of Spies: A Chinese Tradition.

"Only the enlightened sovereign and wise general who can use the most intelligent people as spies can achieve great results", says Sun Tzu in the Art of War.

Historically, the Chinese have always point out the importance and the ways of using spies in a battle. And as we explained previously, the Chinese conscious about the " military technological gap " with the U.S may have planned for more than 30 years now, to steal sensitive technologies from the U.S. in order to gain more time. The concept of "Unrestricted warfare", described by Colonel Wang & Colonel Qin means that any ways can be used to win a battle and that even "during peace time" it is recommended to use any methods to acquire secret knowledge about the enemy technologies and capabilities.

"The reason the enlightened sovereign and the wise general often win the battle when they move, and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men, is foreknowledge. This foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits or gods, nor by analogy with experience, nor by astrologic calculations. It must be obtained from men who know the enemy's situation ...Therefore, only the enlightened sovereign and wise general who can use the most intelligent people as spies can achieve great results", says Sun Tzu in the Art of War.

It is relevant to our claim to emphasis the fact that the Chinese have a long tradition of using spies, longer than the U.S indeed and even the European powers. However, due to the large number of "so called Chinese Overseas" (PRC appellation) living in the U.S, we can claim that the Chinese secret service may not use "conventional clandestine method", and may plan the "ethnic card" with Civilians with China roots to conduct their HUMINT activities

I.B Chinese Intelligence operations in the U.S

"China is the biggest (espionage) threat to the US today..." said David Szady, assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division.

Recently, the Obama's administration decided to remove the "China threat" as number two priority for the Intelligence Community. A spokesman for the White House National Security Council claimed that "U.S. spy agencies had to lower the priority placed on intelligence collection and counterintelligence related to China" in order to focus on greater threats.

Counterintelligence officials were surprised by the decision to lower the intelligence priority on China, noting that China's espionage, technology theft and economic spying continue to dominate scarce resources, including people and funds.

Michelle Van Cleave, former national counterintelligence executive, also said the priority change was ill-advised and will hurt personnel, funding and intelligence assets devoted to Chinese targets."Chinese intelligence is going after us with a vengeance," she said, noting that the problem includes industrial espionage, technology diversion and stealing defense and other national security secrets, in addition to a global campaign of cyber-espionage.

"So why are they doing this?" she asked. "I am very troubled by how little U.S. intelligence really knows about the Chinese, in part because they have been so successful against us. She added that "Our national leadership should be