Technology is at the center of most U.S.-China tensions today. Edward Snowden’s leaks helped put it there.
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In March 2012, a 28-year-old federal contractor named Edward Snowden first reported to the National Security Agency’s Kunia Regional Security Operations Center on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Though he would later hatch a complex plan to leak highly classified intelligence documents, Snowden’s original contract was for a straightforward task: detect and thwart Chinese hacking of U.S. government operations.
The mission was urgent. Chinese cyber attacks against the U.S. were on the ri
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