China’s technological rise has been one of the United States’ biggest preoccupations for nearly a decade, across both Democratic and Republican administrations. In their new book, The Great Heist , David Shedd and Andrew Badger—former officials at the Defense Intelligence Agency—detail the years of espionage that enabled that rise. Through court documents, interviews, and even fictional scenarios, the pair outline the scale of China’s theft of U.S. intellectual property, aiming to galvanize the