Chinese hackers breach email of Commerce Secretary Raimondo and State Department officials

The administration is preparing an expansion of export controls as well as new restrictions on Chinese investment in advanced technologies. Given the forward role that these tools are playing in the administration’s strategy to compete with China, Beijing sees Raimondo as a “particularly important target … to understand her personal views,” said Emily Kilcrease, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and an economic security official at the Commerce Department in the Obama and Trump administrations.

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