Over the past year, the Chinese Communist Party has engaged in repeated clashes with the United States and other nations of the free world. Yet, it continues to weave its surveillance technologies into the very countries it targets for attack.

Beijing has run drills to prepare to invade Taiwan, clashed with the Philippines around Scarborough Shoal, and targeted Japanese planes. China’s consul general in Osaka even threatened to behead Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Chinese leaders rolled out export controls to choke off global supplies of rare earth magnets, and Beijing has dumped massive trade surpluses on Europe, leading to a CCP-EU trade confrontation. Even Panama has come under coercion for rejecting Chinese control of its ports.