How Chinese Spies are Recruited and What are They Looking For?




The Daily Dive show

Summary: President Trump is keeping immigration in the conversation ahead of the midterm elections and he is focusing on the migrant caravan headed toward the states. Calling it an invasion and a crisis at the southern border, the president is planning on issuing a comprehensive executive order on immigration possibly next week to change how asylum claims are handled. Daniel Lippman, reporter for Politico, joins us for the latest remarks. Next, a great story about how spies are recruited and what they are spying on. The Trump administration is ramping up its efforts to target China over economic espionage and the stealing of intellectual property. Chinese backed firms and other actors have recently been accused of stealing trade secrets from Micron, a maker of memory chips and details for a type of jet engine technology from US-based companies. The theft of intellectual property by China could add up to billions every year. Garrett Graff, contributing editor at Wired, joins us for more on the theft of intellectual property and the way China is recruiting spies in the US.