This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Batchelor. It is in the immediate future at the White

House, the Situation Room, 5,500 square feet, downstairs from the White House.

Gathering is the president, the vice president, and the national security team to discuss

what is to be done about the People's Republic of China and theft.

The new book is The Great Heist, China's epic campaign to steal America's secrets.

David Shed and Andrew Badger, the authors, they are veterans of American intelligence.

The Defense Intelligence Agency is part of the matrix that makes up the security of the United

States.

At the same time, the documentation of what's

happened the last 30 years to transform a beggarly economy, a brutality and ferocious

and meaninglessness into a peer rival of the United States with weaponry, with intention, ambition, at the same time a predatory state

that abuses its own people and the whole neighborhood and threatens the comity of planet Earth,

the People's Republic of China.

Thief, theft, theft, theft, the great heist.

David, a very good evening to you.

Congratulations to you and your colleague.

You've made me at once unhappy, and then I start to laugh because it's so overwhelming.

The examples you use of how the American people, either naive or simple or distracted,

have watched this happen for 30 years and still watch it happen as we speak.

It's not past history.

Into that situation room, in the immediate future, with a president and a team, the

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