RE:Bill Maher's Monologue on China Last on HBO NorthOntKid wrote: "China is eating our lunch and they're coming back hungry in an hour"!
Have to figure long distance espionage is cheaper and easier than the costs associated with a spy network. Be it agents, double agents, paid informants, paid traitors, double crossers etc. the game has changed with the times. Don't have to forge documents and pass through a customs checkpoint for couple things. Hacking the other guy is probably the biggest computer game out there. Taking over control and running the other guy's systems could be how you win the game.