The U.S. government accused the Chinese of being the world's "most active and persistent" perpetrators of economic espionage. Russian intelligence agents also are conducting extensive spying to collect U.S. economic data and technology, according to a U.S. intelligence report released Thursday that concluded China and Russia are "the most aggressive collectors" of U.S. economic information and technology. The report focuses on spying primarily for commercial and economic purposes, as opposed to national security. Economic espionage is condoned by both China and Russia and is part of each country's national economic development policy, the official said. The U.S government doesn't have calculations of the economic losses due to economic cyberespionage. Industrial espionage poses a number of national-security threats to the U.S., including the risk that stolen military technology will be handed to hostile countries like North Korea or Iran, the intelligence report concluded. Government-sponsored economic spying is growing, the senior official said. U.S. officials have confronted foreign counterparts with allegations of industrial espionage, the senior U.S. official said, but the official declined to provide an example or cite a particular country's government. One proposal intelligence officials are considering is building the cyberattack equivalent of the National Counterterrorism Center, which merges terrorism data from intelligence agencies and state and local governments. Not only is this an economic issue but it doubles as a national security problem. Also, its happening around the globe. Everyday countries have their most prized ideas stolen. This can range from a company's secret recipe to a military's plans on a top secret weapon. Both China and Russia condone espionage but here in the US its illegal. Countries need to invest more in security infrastructure to prevent this from happening.
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