House Select Committee Hears China Has Extended Economic Espionage Campaign to Specifically Target US AI Advances, Military First in Line to Benefit

The House Select Committee on China held a hearing June 25-26 at which former acting Defense Intelligence Agency director David Shedd testified that China has extended its long-running technology-theft campaign to specifically target American AI advances, describing the effort as 'highly strategic, highly accelerated, and multifaceted' and combining cyber operations, human intelligence, academic partnerships, and business investments. Shedd stated the Chinese military is 'first in line to benefit' from stolen AI technologies. A counterbalancing witness urged targeted rather than sweeping responses to avoid unfair impacts on the Asian American community.