Some of the activity was happening in the American heartland. Officials watched with suspicion as China bought up parcels of American farmland and the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei offered remarkably cheap bids to build the 3G and 4G networks of rural telecom carriers located around the country’s nuclear missile silos. But much of it was taking place on a national scale. When the FBI discovered a Chinese police ring in 2015 operating secretly in the United States to target “fugitives”—often Chinese dissidents—the Obama administration quietly told Beijing it had to shut down the
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