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New report from US cyber security firm ties cyber attacks on at least 115.
US companies to the Chinese military.
And joining me news columnist author of the -- the coming collapse of China.
Gordon Chang and -- pops is the curvature of the strategic materials advisory council he also directed technology acquisition for the army under.
Presidents bush and Obama.
Good to have you all with us I wanna start here if I may -- this cannot be.
A reasonable response to such charges -- that is.
For the Obama administration to basically saying nothing.
Well good evening Lou this is dean in Washington and good evening Gordon I think the silence in this town has been absolutely deafening.
And we have not put this as a priority.
In this administration.
And we continue to take the -- we continue to see our industrial base eroded.
By Chinese purchases transfer of technology.
Cyber theft intellectual property.
Trade proper trade theft intellectual property theft and it's just an incredible.
Almost Tom Clancy type novel that is emerging here in Washington.
Gordon -- you and I have talked about.
The the attack on the United States it's military.
I its technological secrets its knowledge base 3500.
Company's that are front companies for China.
And we have.
We have cyber security firms acting the US Department of Defense this administration is if they've never heard of this before but there's this little country over there on the mainland.
Call China.
That is attacking us daily.
Yeah we've known that the People's Liberation Army has been doing this for a decade it was about six million cyber attacks a day.
In many of these are six million a day a day that they're against not only our defense establishment but as you point out they're going against our corporations.
And private organizations like charities and NGOs.
They are attacking the free institutions of our society and this really is a problem because -- we don't do something about this we just might as well sell the country to China.
