Why the Chinese Regime Is a ‘Criminal State’: Nicholas Eftimiades

"We've seen criminal gangs that support the [Chinese] Ministry of State Security. Not only are they stealing technologies, but they're actually doing denial of service attacks and ransomware attacks and actually doing criminal activities.

…The bottom line: you have a criminal state that supports these to degrade the United States and to further the greatest transfer of wealth in history."

Nicholas Eftimiades, author of "Chinese Espionage: Operations and Tactics"