Increasingly, China relied on a sweeping array of cyber exploitation campaigns to siphon key commercial and national security data to Beijing. Nothing was off-limits: Reams of details on American naval warship capabilities and nuclear test data were collected side by side with the trade secrets of General Motors, DuPont Chemical, and Boeing. In one of the worst instances, Chinese hackers broke into the defense contractor Lockheed Martin and stole the plans for the Pentagon’s cutting-edge new joint strike fighter, the F-35. The Chinese air force decided to test-fly the plane just as Robert
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