Tag: espionage

Spies Posing As Diplomats to Win Over Journalists: Intelligence Agency

Foreign spies are posing as diplomats or reporters to engage and influence journalists, says Australia’s domestic spy chief Mike Burgess. In his wide-ranging Annual Threat Assessment speech, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) also revealed his agency recently disrupted a “hive of spies” implanted in society for many years. “I am telling…


China Lasers Hawaii, Prepares for War

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary On Jan. 28, the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera, which livestreams images from the Subaru Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, caught images of a shower of green laser beams lasting just seconds. The beams were not, as originally thought, from a NASA satellite. They could have come from only one source:…


3 Years’ Delay to Rein In TikTok

Commentary The drumbeat regarding national security risks posed by TikTok, the popular social media app owned by Chinese big-tech firm ByteDance, has reached a fever pitch. After recently blocking it from federal government devices, Congress might now seek an outright national ban of the app. Given the failure of a prior attempted ban due to…


It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Harmless Chinese Spy Ship!

Commentary When did journalists stop asking hard questions and become nothing more than a tool for the U.S. government to spread the “official” story? Oh wait, I remember. It’s when Donald Trump was booted out of office and Democrats took the helm. In every major story, you can ask yourself how journalists would handle it…


Why Is America Desperate to Talk to China After Balloon Intrusion?

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary “We believe in the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between the United States and the PRC [People’s Republic of China] in order to responsibly manage the relationship,” declared Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon spokesman, in a Feb. 7 statement. “Unfortunately, the PRC has declined our request. Our commitment to…


Assessing US-China Relations in the Aftermath of the Spy Balloon

Commentary The utterly humiliating saga of a high-altitude Chinese surveillance “balloon” successfully traversing the entire North American continent, only to be shot down off the South Carolina coast after completing its intelligence-gathering voyage, ought to serve as a wake-up call for America’s decadent ruling class. At Newsweek, Paul du Quenoy sagely compared the affair to…


FBI Has Recovered ‘Extremely Limited’ Chinese Spy Balloon Debris, Says Most Parts Still Underwater

Most of the debris from the Chinese spy balloon shot down by the U.S. military last week is still lying in the ocean. The FBI has so far recovered very limited physical evidence from the Chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, and senior FBI officials said that…


‘If China Threatens Our Sovereignty, We Will Act’: Biden in State of the Union

President Joe Biden has sworn to protect American sovereignty in the face of Chinese communist aggression amid bipartisan alarm over the growing threat posed by Beijing. Biden said that his order to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace late last week was evidence of his commitment to defend the nation and…


Chinese Spy Balloon Spotlights Growing CCP Threat

News Analysis For eight long days, a Chinese spy balloon bobbed along in the skies above the United States and Canada. First, it appeared to be heading north off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, then east towards British Columbia, before suddenly diverting again south and east in a course that would bring it over some of the…


Chinese Spy Balloon Spotlights CCP’s Brazen Plot Against US

News Analysis For eight long days, a Chinese spy balloon bobbed along in the skies above the United States and Canada. First, it appeared to be heading north off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, then east toward British Columbia, before suddenly diverting again south and east in a course that would bring it over some of the…