So now that I think about it a much better match for what you’re talking about is the belt and road initiative. This does a lot of things all rolled into one, and it eliminates the main problem with clandestine funding of things, which is that they’re never really is enough money to do what you want to do. Most of the stories in the 20th century of countries bankrolling ventures in other countries for nefarious purposes were mostly done on a shoestring budget that could be hidden from Congress. There’s enough money to pay Jackson Pollock to paint, but not enough to displace an indigenous technology industry. China has fixed that by just making it a public endeavor. They get the benefit of regulatory capture, soft power, and technological lock in and all they really have to do is spend money. The reason why this works is because stuff is expensive and eventually national pride and sense crumble to whatever needs you have for technology.