Tag: espionage

CCP Agent Conspired With New York Police Officer to Spy on Americans: DOJ

The Department of Justice (DOJ( on March 30 unsealed charges against a Chinese national, who is accused of working as an unregistered agent of the Chinese communist regime. Sun Hoi Ying is alleged to have spied on at least 35 individuals in the United States and to have fed information from his efforts to the Chinese…


US Counterespionage Program Ended Despite Ongoing CCP Spying

News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses the greatest espionage threat to the United States. Yet Chinese agents continue to obtain U.S. visas, and the Biden administration terminated the U.S. counterespionage program last month. A group of U.S. lawmakers has recently called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to reinstate the China Initiative program…


CCP Engaged in ‘Unprecedented’ Assault on US Technology, Research: Former CIA Counterintelligence Chief

Economic espionage, trade theft, and technology transfer by the Chinese regime are on the rise in the United States, and while U.S. intelligence agencies have an opportunity to get the upper hand through clandestine activity, the Biden administration is limiting their ability to do carry this out, according to a counterintelligence analyst. The issue of…


Beijing Largest National Security Risk in University Research Sector: Aussie Senate Report

Australia’s taxpayer-funded university research sector has long been targeted by authoritarian regimes resulting in the transfer of sensitive research, with a new government report specifically identifying the Chinese regime as the largest, but not the only, culprit of foreign interference. In the report, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) found several instances where…


Beijing as Largest National Security Risk in University Research Sector: Aussie Senate Report

Australia’s taxpayer-funded university research sector has long been targeted by authoritarian regimes resulting in the transfer of sensitive research, with a new government report specifically identifying the Chinese regime as the largest, but not the only, culprit of foreign interference. In the report, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) found several instances where…


Republican Senators Press DOJ to Fight Back Against CCP Espionage

A group of five Republican senators issued a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on March 24, pleading that he formally recognize and reprioritize the threat posed to national security by the Chinese communist regime’s efforts to conduct espionage against the United States. The senators, led by Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), wrote that the United…


Inside the CCP’s Campaign to Spy on Americans

An Army veteran running for Congress, an Olympic figure skater, and a pro-democracy activist were among those targeted in an alleged plot by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to harass, intimidate, and spy on ethnic Chinese dissidents in America. Federal prosecutors unsealed charges against five men in three separate cases on March 16, whom they…


Sen. Rubio Warns Florida Colleges of CCP Espionage: ‘Keep Those Concerns in Mind’

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Thursday wrote to the presidents of 26 research colleges and universities in his state, warning them to guard against espionage efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “I write to bring your attention to a thorny issue that threatens to compromise our nation’s security as well as the integrity of…


Marco Rubio Warns Florida Colleges of CCP Espionage: ‘Keep Those Concerns in Mind’

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Thursday wrote to the presidents of 26 research colleges and universities in his state, warning them to guard against espionage efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “I write to bring your attention to a thorny issue that threatens to compromise our nation’s security as well as the integrity of…


Closure of DOJ Program Targeting CCP Espionage a Show of ‘Weakness’: Sen. Cotton

Critics have lambasted the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its recent decision to close the “China Initiative,” a Trump-era effort to thwart economic espionage from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “The CCP has stolen trillions of dollars of American intellectual property, destroyed millions of American jobs, and turned students and researchers studying in the United…