China’s plans for world domination might sound like a plot for a Hollywood movie, but to tell the truth, the movie might just be real. In recent months, private investigation and government work have shown that China has plans to use industrial espionage to make their country an even greater military and industrial threat. China’s work has been much greater and more innovative than what the Soviets tried to do. The Soviets, for instance, did not have the supporting industries to enable it to copy U.S. innovations and accomplishments. They ended up making crude copies, and thus could not reach industrial heights the way their contemporaries across the Atlantic did.

The article goes on to say that it China is avoiding the errors made by the Soviets by allowing the West to penetrate into China’s businesses, as well as by sending students to the U.S. to study. Although some of these students will end up staying in the U.S., many of them will return to China and share their expertise. The article calls the China approach a “thousand grains of sand” which will involve trying to push the citizens overseas, with the hope that they can bring back knowledge; as well as employing people of Chinese descent in helping rebuild China through subtle spying techniques. While this approach is not new, imprudent exercise of it can be alarming.

According to the article, any Chinese citizens who come or go are subjected to scrutiny and interviews by the government. The government may ask students to bring back souvenirs, to report on the things that they see, and to “share” what they have learned. Diplomatic immunity, the article says, also works in favor of the Chinese: they offer cash in order to recruit spies, and give large financial incentives to people who can bring back Western knowledge to further China’s industrial hopes. However, they can only work to a certain extent made possible by copyright and patent laws.

In recent months, private investigation has turned up information on what the Chinese are doing in terms of recruiting people to help serve their military and industrial needs. Private investigators are well equipped to handle this case on all possible fronts and they may be tasked to spy on Chinese diplomats, people of Chinese descent, and even Chinese exchange students in order to see how information is being passed on. Of course, this may breed a good deal of paranoia in the general populace, so private investigation must likewise be subtle in checking on how Chinese immigrants and visitors are behaving and possibly working for their motherland.

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