I know Russia has it's faults, and Putin is KGB, so they do their fair share of spying and meddling and whatnot, but nothing even close to the involvement the filthy chinese have in America. The chinese have not only been spying on America, they've been openly and covertly stealing our intellectual property, our secrets, and taken our manufacturing industry and bought up so much of America, and flooded America with so much of their cheap garbage that now we have no bigger threat to our national security on the planet. The worst part about china being able to cripple America is, Americans let them do it. Why? Why else... GREED. MONEY has been more important than our national security.
My guess is that many business leaders, CEO's and people in positions of power are willingly looking the other way, anticipating the big shift of wealth and influence to China. In many countries, as businesses decide "we are multi-national", with no loyalties to ANY countries security, prosperity or sovereignty, it's all about the bottom line.
Ideologically, "leaders" embrace the idea that China is a great business location and friend to the world. It's what they've been told in business school and when they get their MBA. They are rewarded for this thinking with plush jobs and wealth. So they think "to hell with my country, I get what I can". They believe if they don't, their competition will.
It's the same mentality that drives bad cops to abuse their authority and they are well rewarded for it (at least in Canada). They care little for virtue, they view their subjects as cattle, a means to an end.
Greed is good in my opinion. It motivates capitalism.
It has to be based on principle though. Don't destroy your nation and the principled, moral system of values that allowed you to prosper. Capitalism and civil liberty drives success. They go hand in hand, they are sustainable if defended.
The security apparatuses of the world are also to blame, stuck in another era. Focusing on petty crime and poor bandits, justifying their existence, looking for "home grown racists" and other easy to manipulate agendas, while right under their noses the communists are doing as they please.
The foreign agencies decimate economies, the middle class, shipping in heavy and addictive poisons to make their adversary weak, reliant and unable to ask questions such as "what happened to opportunity"? By the time intel agencies wake up, they have someone in office who orders them to "not focus on this threat".
Most citizens of the West have little clue. It doesn't bode well for our future.
