As the New York Times reports, the U.S. government will soon publicly accuse China’s cyberintelligence services of efforts to steal U.S. coronavirus vaccine research.

Put simply, this Chinese activity is not shocking. As I noted on April 30, “Considering their operational character, China’s security services are almost certainly stealing as much research from foreign laboratories as they can.” The government is likely to accuse People’s Liberation Army cyberunits and perhaps also the Ministry of State Security directly for this thievery effort. Those cyberelements are aggressive and resourceful and will almost certainly succeed in stealing some valuable information.