From apps to autos: China’s data reach sparks US espionage and sabotage concerns

China has built a state-driven campaign to harvest American data and weaponise it as a strategic asset that could prove critical in a conflict with the US, including over Taiwan, a key advisory committee to the US Congress heard.Experts told the China-economic-and-security-review-commission" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="32181" data-entity-type="organization">US-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Thursday that Washington was falling short in countering Beijing’s data-collection drive, one that could have far-reaching implications for American society and the economy, as well as US wartime strategy.“China is not merely stealing data. It is doing so to build an AI-enabled intelligence and targeting architecture for economic competition, political coercion and wartime advantage,” said Joseph Lin, chief executive officer of Twenty, a cyber warfare company.