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I'd tear down the whole building; as I'd be very surprised if the walls weren't full of bugs as well, similar to the American Embassy case.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/15/world/the-bugged-embassy-c...

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China also helped building headquarter for Vietnam Ministry of Public Safety http://mapio.net/pic/p-57003656/ The rumour is that this build is full of bugs in the walls and everywhere, so that the Ministry is still using their old building, the new one is only for unimportant paperwork.

welcome to world politics -

US sold a Boeing 767 to China which was planned to be used by the Chinese President as the official jet, as expected, it is full of bugs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...

Australia put bugs in the newly constructed Chinese embassy in Australia's capital back in 1995.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-08/the-chinese-embassy-bu...

Idea for political trolling: just once, sell the other country a jet or whatever without a single bug, and laugh as they desperately tear it apart, trying to uncover something.

Bonus points if you leak the intel/design plans talking about your recent breakthrough in bug technology and how untraceable they'll be now.

> ''The culprit,'' Mr. Schlesinger said, ''is American complacency, the tendency to assume that the Russians are technically inferior to us and that we can handle them.''

This article may be from 1988, but it seems somewhat applicable to current events.

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