America's greed has compromised the country's security, possibly to the point of no return. It's been strongly rumored in some spaces that deal with national security, etc, that the Chinese wouldn't have fire a single shot.
I've long heard they have the means to be able to shut down either all or a major part of our power grids. The major universities that have been the source of some of the state of the STEM breakthroughs, such as University of Chicago, MIT, Cal Tech and others have taken untold millions of donations from Chinese front companies to fund 'research and development'. The catch is they get access to any breakthroughs, also they have placed their own people there to do research along and these people have long spied on their own colleagues as well as any work conducted.
Starting in the '90s under Clinton and his black Secretary of Commerce, and Dem Party establishment upper level, Ron Brown
Ron Brown - Wikipedia.
They brought American companies to China to make deals. The Chinese had one rule, you can't do business with them unless you shared the knowledge of any patent, etc.
How do you think the Chinese now have a stealth plane?
Chengdu J-20 - Wikipedia You don't get a stealth from zero to finished product in a couple decades. The Russians weren't able to for years. That technology was all stolen.
Our senior administrators all have compromised emails, etc. Hillary Clinton wasn't the only one. The Bush administration was way worse.
22 Million E-Mails Missing From Bush White House Found The North Koreans to a lesser degree. They are catching new spies all the time from China. The countries who have been able to get the most secrets and I mean top, top secret, national security level, national threat level are: China, Russia, Israel and North Korea. Not necessarily in that order. Israel knows pretty much everything we do.
America is f*cked, the top level knows it, but they want to keep us in the dark because the people will ask questions, demand answers and want to punish those who did it but there are way too many people, at too high a level.