in my book, i interviewed a former cia counterintelligence official, high-ranking official, mark calvin. he described to me when he said was an intelligence assault on the u.s. by china. he compared it to the kind of assault that we saw on the soviet kgb back at the head of the cold war. it is across the board. it is not limited to just traditionalcrets, espionage from government. it is also going after corporate secrets. of course, darrell blended together. in my book, i talk about the bin, a sue military hacker based on canada. 300,000ble for some smething thousand dollars, teal secrets with billions of dollars, the chinese turned around and build their own transport, which looks similar to the c17, called the y20. it is an across-the-board effort. on the influence front, we have seen it on college campuses. the trump administration justice department has been leading the way in prosecuting officials who pay of thein the chinese government for research. it's been covert. almost on a monthly basis, we are seeing academics and even chinese nationals being prosecuted for both influence a

in my book i interviewed a former cia counterintelligence official, a high-ranking official. and he described to the what he said was an intelligence assault on united states by china. and he compared it the kind of assault we saw from the soviet kgb at the height of the cold war. not limited to just gathering secrets and traditional espionage from governments, it is also going after corporate secrets and of course, they are all blended together. but in my book, i talked about the case of a chinese military hacker based in canada. and he was able for some $340,000 to hack into boeing and steal the design secrets for the military transport. not only were these secrets stolen and worth about $3.4 billion, the chinese then turned around and built their own transport which looks similar to the c-17. so it is an across-the-board effort. on the influence front, we seen it on college campuses. the tribe administration justice department has been leading the way in prosecuting officials who have been in the pay of the chinese government for research, and it has been covert. basis, we

on the intelligence front, i can tell you, retired cia counterintelligence official told me that whate doing, and intelligence assault that has not been seen since the cold war days of the soviet union. i would make the point that we really, really need a much better counterintelligence system then we have. let's go back, this case we are talking about with swalwell happened around 2015, and that is when the fbi was at its worst, in terms of what we found out to be politicized counterintelligence people. we really need to beef up our counterintelligence capabilities. >> bret: general, where do you see the biggest threat from china? he of the military buildup. you've got their cyber capabilities. they are now really going into space significantly, and we have been talking about counterintelligence efforts and intelligence efforts inside the u.s. >> it is really on the collection of data. they seek to become the saudi arabia of data, data drives artificial intelligence. they think to use the same tools that silicon valley developed to harvest data and then influence consumers. they want

in my book i interviewed a former cia counterintelligence official, a high-ranking official.e described to the what he said was an intelligence assault on united states by china. and he compared it the kind of assault we saw from the soviet kgb at the height of the cold war. not limited to just gathering secrets and traditional espionage from governments, it is also going after corporate secrets and of course, they are all blended together. but in my book, i talked about the case of a chinese military hacker based in canada. and he was able for some $340,000 to hack into boeing and steal the design secrets for the military transport. not only were these secrets stolen and worth about $3.4 billion, the chinese then turned around and built their own transport which looks similar to the c-17. so it is an across-the-board effort. on the influence front, we seen it on college campuses. the tribe administration justice department has been leading the way in prosecuting officials who have been in the pay of the chinese government for research, and it has been covert. basis, wea mont