Ironically the US could learn half or more of what they need spies to find out if they just made scientific cooperation between the two countries legal and stopped witch-hunting scientists with Chinese and other Asian heritage.
The US keeps doing this, and expecting China to come begging to be let back in the club. Everytime China just goes off and does it way better themselves.
In a way, the US repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot is probably one of the biggest impetus for Chinese development around. China probably would have been happy to cooperate with US space organizations or to keep using their existing chip agreements.
Ironically the US could learn half or more of what they need spies to find out if they just made scientific cooperation between the two countries legal and stopped witch-hunting scientists with Chinese and other Asian heritage.
The US keeps doing this, and expecting China to come begging to be let back in the club. Everytime China just goes off and does it way better themselves.
In a way, the US repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot is probably one of the biggest impetus for Chinese development around. China probably would have been happy to cooperate with US space organizations or to keep using their existing chip agreements.