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China's Deep Strike

China's Deep Strike

Beijing’s latest hack is an unprecedented, broad assault on the West’s computers

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Mar 14, 2021
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During World War II, the Chinese Communists cultivated opium in their base area and trafficked it into Japanese-occupied cities. Mao Zedong’s man in charge was one of the biggest master spies of the period, Li Kenong. Though Mao later regretted cultivating the “special product,” which he called “that certain thing,” the drug caused disruption in the ene…

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