Since the early 2000s, China have stolen a mind-boggling $600 billion of American trade secrets every single year.

That's a whopping $12 trillion over the last 20 years.

Yikes.

What on earth were they after?

Well, in short, everything.

They've got spies everywhere from tech firms to the military.

So stick with me.

Try to keep a low profile.

And fingers crossed, we'll make it out all right.

Ready, partner?

Good.

Let's find out what secrets the Chinese government have been stealing from us. You're listening. You're listening. You're listening to be amazed.

First things first, drop the spy movie nonsense. No gadgets, no public shootouts, and absolutely

no smooching any beautiful women. Gross. Sadly, nowadays, spying is almost all conducted with

technology, computers, and data. But don't think it's any less shocking. Oh no. In 2007, a Chinese cyber espionage unit called the

Technical Reconnaissance Bureau stole heaps of incredibly sensitive U.S. aircraft data before passing

that information on to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China. Okay, so China knows how to make

a leflanji, big deal. Wrong.

These weren't any old aircraft parts. China scooped precious intel on the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning 2 stealth fighter jets,

which have the absolute apex of stealth technology to avoid enemy detection.

Fast forward to 2016 and China unveiled their own stealth fighter, the Chengdu J20.

Now it's not a carbon copy. The J20 is slightly nearer and longer than the F-35,

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