There is a clear message being sent globally under Joe Biden: America is weak, without leadership, and wide open for the taking.
That two Homeland Security workers entrusted in the DHS were charged in a Chinese spying scheme is worrying. The Chinese embassy in Washington has not commented, but it should be pressured to do so. It isn’t a novel occurrence for nations, hostile to Western values, to use their embassies to advance their country’s agendas.
Meanwhile, FBI Director Christopher Wray and his MI5 counterpart Ken McCallum have raised fresh concerns “of economic espionage commissioned by China.”
The Chinese embassy in Washington should be work willingly to exonerate itself from any culpability in these schemes, or else should be investigated.
Another key stratagem of foreign agencies is to bribe key Western influencers.
America is headed for catastrophe with a leader such as Biden, who continues steadily and rapidly to weaken America from within and humiliate America internationally.
“US charges two Homeland Security workers in Chinese spying scheme,” Reuters, July 7, 2022:
US prosecutors charged two men tied to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of what federal law enforcement officials have called a “transnational repression scheme” on behalf of the Chinese government to spy on and harass dissidents living in the United States.
The two charged were Craig Miller, who has worked as a DHS deportation officer for 15 years in Minnesota, and Derrick Taylor, a retired DHS law enforcement agent now working as a private investigator in California, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday.
On Wednesday, a grand jury returned an indictment charging the two men and three others with crimes committed while acting as alleged Chinese agents, the department said in a statement.
“We will defend the rights of people in the United States to engage in free speech and political expression,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen.
“These individuals aided agents of a foreign government in seeking to suppress dissenting voices who have taken refuge here,” he added.
“These individuals aided agents of a foreign government in seeking to suppress dissenting voices who have taken refuge here.”
Of the three other individuals, two were previously arrested as part of an earlier related complaint in March: Fan “Frank” Liu and Matthew Ziburis.
The third individual, Qiang “Jason” Sun, remains at large, prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York said.
Miller and Taylor were arrested in June, they said.
The charges
The charges include obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence after FBI agents asked about use of a law enforcement database with information on US-based Chinese dissidents….
“US and UK intelligence chiefs raise fresh alarm on China’s industrial spies”, by Sayan Ghosh, WION News, July 7, 2022:
The head of the FBI and the leader of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency (MI5) raised fresh alarms about the security threats posed by the Chinese government. In a joint address on Wednesday, they warned business leaders that China is looking to steal technologies for competitive gain and that can lead to major security breaches. FBI Director Christopher Wray and his MI5 counterpart Ken McCallum said that the concerns of economic espionage commissioned by China continues to be a major problem and hacking operations by the country can be used to “stifle dissent abroad”.
“We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses the biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security, and by ‘our’, I mean both of our nations, along with our allies in Europe and elsewhere,” Wray said in his address according to Associated Press.
Wray added that China is “set on stealing your technology, whatever it is that makes your industry tick, and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market”.
Ken McCallum said that China has been on their radar for quite some time when it comes to the “widespread attempts at inference” which applies to “so many aspects of our national life”.
“Today is the first time the heads of the FBI and MI5 have shared a public platform,” McCallum said…..
PMK says
Wray added that China is “set on stealing your technology, whatever it is that makes your industry tick, and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market”.
What planet have these men been living on for the last two decades? They’re suddenly aware that Chinese spies are operating in the West? What do they think happened when Clinton made nice with China and major industries relocated there for the cheap labor? Then there was the breach at Los Alamos where Chinese spies were allowed to operate. That was over twenty years ago but there have been employees at the lab just in 2019 and 2020 who have had contacts with China.
They’re warning everyone about China but a business owner who declines to hire someone who has connections in China will be sanctioned or branded as a racist.
Kepha says
The USA brought this on itself. Back in the days of Nixon and Kissinger–the latter perhaps one of the most overrated men to pass through Washington, a city of overrated men–we fooled ourselves into thinking that a country fanatically loyal to the memory of Stalin could be a real ally. Our business circles saw China as a vast pool of cheap, non-unionized, docile labor.
I’m the first to admit that China is a fascinating, creative country with a lot that is admirable. I’m pleased to be partially kin to its people. But Its government is already diligently working to make China the first 1984-style surveillance state, and to extend its surveillance powers globally. Already, academia is scared of publishing anything remotely critical of the CCP. Media is not far behind.
Solzhenitsyn once warned that after WWII, we gave half of the globe to Stalin; now, we are giving the other half to the last, best hope of 20th century totalitarianism.
john smith says
Spot on Kepha
gravenimage says
+1
Kepha says
It’s what we get for shipping our economy to China. Well done, shortsighted politicians and greedy CEO’s who hoped to exploit labor.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is so very weak and feeble-minded that the Communist President Red China, Xi Jinping, can easily manipulate him as his “useful idiot.”
For example, Biden is such a mindless empty headed fool that even get an old saying right. For Biden exclaimed “Buy a man eat fish, the day teach man to a lifetime.”
Keith O says
Dementia Joe and his cackling offsider seem to have mastered the concept of “the word salad”.
Probably their only achievements.
Keith O says
Anyone and I do mean anyone who thinks China and the CCP are not a threat are either stupid, ignorant or actively supportive of China.
This in turn makes them a threat to the western world and our safety.
We have three main forces at play who are after world domination, all want total control of everything we say, do, buy, think and want.
They are Islam, the corporations and the CCP, all for very different reasons, but each as dangerous as the other and all more than capable of using nefarious means of achieving this.
gravenimage says
Two DHS workers charged in Chinese spying scheme while US, UK intelligence chiefs warn of Chinese industrial spies
There is a clear message being sent globally under Joe Biden: America is weak, without leadership, and wide open for the taking.
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This has long been a problem, but it is getting worse under Biden.
Bummed says
Well since high ranking democrats can have Chinese nationals as sex partners and chauffeurs without any repercussions I don’t see why we should worry about this stuff.
Kepha says
And such sex partners are pies as well.
James Lincoln says
The picture accompanying this feature article tells a lot about Joe Biden.
He’s easily flattered (being played) by “dignitaries” – and enjoys being made to feel important.
And he’ll sell his own country down the drain in the process.