> Even as the Middle East and Afghanistan dominated resources and attention in the years after 9/11, U.S. intelligence agencies never stopped targeting China ag

> Even as the Middle East and Afghanistan dominated resources and attention in the years after 9/11, U.S. intelligence agencies never stopped targeting China aggressively, according to former officials directly involved in those efforts. This intelligence focus intensified in the mid-2000s ... Reminds me of this 2002 report, also from WSJ (https://archive.is/8zfgT https://archive.is/8zfgT): > Revelations that a U.S.-made plane supplied to the Chinese president came riddled with eavesdropping devices is discomfiting China's leaders, but the low-key Chinese response so far suggests it won't upset efforts to improve ties, or a planned summit next month. > China's government ordered the luxuriously outfitted plane, a modified Boeing 767, in mid-2000 for President Jiang Zemin, and a company owned by the Chinese air force flew it to Beijing in August. Within a few weeks, military technicians uncovered more than 20 listening devices, according to people familiar with the situation. Among the detected bugs were sophisticated models activated by satellite; one such device was found planted behind the headboard of the presidential bed, according to foreign diplomats and a Chinese scholar with military ties.