What developments in China and Russia are American intelligence interested in? The Pentagon is planning to create a secret human intelligence program aimed at waging economic warfare against China and other US competitors. Agents will operate undercover as entrepreneurs or private sector employees with no apparent connection to the US government. The Americans have long relied on opposition to China's development, so these kinds of activities have also been going on for a long time, says Kirill Babeev, director of the Institute for China and Modern Asia. According to him, this conflict is global in nature, it will only grow, so similar initiatives from both sides should be expected. This particular publication by WP is probably just a "duck", intended to show the serious attitude of the United States to the confrontation with China, the expert believes. But in fact, in the United States there is already a functional and rich toolkit for intelligence activity. In terms of objectives, the United States is mainly interested in understanding the trend of high-tech development in China. These are artificial intelligence, robotics, military drones, the Navy, on Babaev's list. Therefore, the actions will be aimed mainly at gathering information in these areas. At the same time, Russia is also the main potential rival of the United States. Our country has gained enormous experience in modern warfare, which the United States does not have. Therefore, Russian developments will be extremely interesting for American intelligence as well, the expert noted.