S8 Ep708: PREVIEW FOR LATER (7) HEADLINE: China’s Strategic Playbook for Technology Theft GUEST: David Shedd SUMMARY: David Shedd explains China’s systematic approach to stealing Western technology, focusing on AI and robotics. This strategy utilizes civilian-milit
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
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HEADLINE: China’s Strategic Playbook for Technology Theft GUEST: David Shedd SUMMARY: David Shedd explains China’s systematic approach to stealing Western technology, focusing on AI and robotics. This strategy utilizes civilian-military fusion to support the Chinese Communist Party’s strategic objectives by acquiring technological breakthroughs. (8)
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batch for conversation with my colleague David Shedd, author of the new book, The Great Heist, |
| 0:05.7 | about the Chinese apparatus that steals perloin sabotages, engineering, equipment, breakthroughs, science, |
| 0:13.5 | anywhere in the world, but especially the United States, and how? |
| 0:17.2 | It is a simple playbook, repeat, repeat, repeat. David explains it. |
| 0:21.3 | It's now being directed toward robotics |
| 0:24.1 | and towards especially AI. |
| 0:27.9 | Stealing, purloining, larceny. |
| 0:31.7 | And what is to be done? |
| 0:33.3 | Here's David Shed, along with our colleague |
| 0:35.7 | Jack Burnham of the Foundation for Defensive Democracies. |
| 0:39.5 | More of this later tonight. |
| 0:41.8 | It is absolutely classic. |
| 0:44.3 | It's wash, rinse, and repeat. |
| 0:47.1 | And the fact is you have to pull the lens back on China and recognize that the civilian military fusion is how |
| 0:58.0 | their entire apparatus operates and everything ultimately supports the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 1:06.6 | And so whether it's done through the Ministry of State Security, their intelligence apparatus, or done through PLA, the People's Liberation Army's front companies, this is all part of a game plan. |
| 1:20.9 | Two points to add to Jack's comments, which are so pertinent here. |
| 1:26.6 | The first is this is not by coincidence. |
| 1:30.0 | They don't stumble into this. |
| 1:32.3 | They actively pursue these as part of a strategic plan |
| 1:36.1 | to acquire Western technology. |
| 1:38.0 | The second one is they stop at nothing |
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