US, China take bolder steps to uncover each other’s secrets as ‘silent war’ expands and intensifies – Times of India Feedzy

 NEW DELHI: The US and China are locked in an ever-expanding and highly secretive spy-versus-spy contest as each vies to maintain a military and information edge.The shooting down of a Chinese surveillance balloon over US territory in February this year brought into focus the intense war happening behind the scenes between the two global powers.The balloon crisis, a small part of a much larger Chinese espionage effort, reflected a brazen new aggressiveness by Beijing in gathering intelligence on the US as well as Washington’s growing capabilities to collect its own information on China, said a report by the New York Times.