Desperation

People bemoan Chinese business espionage and Russian election meddling. But it's actually a compliment to U.S. freedom and innovation. The Chinese keep such tight control of their people, that they don't have the freedom to innovate and the best they can do is copy our technology. Russia is a 3rd rate commodity based economy run by a mob that shuts down any independent ooperators. So they manufacture overseas adventures to keep people's minds off their incompetent government. These countries are like a Chihuahua nipping at our heels. When they stop doing it, that's when we are in trouble.