China’s espionage poses urgent threat to the UK & US | "Coordinated Campaign on a Grand Scale” by the CCP | “Strategic Contest Across Decades" | FIRST JOINT SPEECH by FBI & MI5 EVER | China Issues Private WARNINGS to US on PELOSI’s Taiwan Trip Next Month

[Golwalkar]

 

FBI and MI5 call the Chinese Communist Party 'a serious threat'. Director General of MI5 and FBI Director Christopher Wray make an unprecedented joint speech on the growing threat of China as a hostile state enactor for Western businesses and security services. They warned China was 'covertly applying pressure'.

 

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian rejected the heads of the FBI and MI5 warning of the growing long-term threat posed by China and urged U.S. and UK to ‘stop spreading rumors.’

 

 

 

 

China’s espionage poses urgent threat to the UK and US

Amid political turmoil in Westminster, the FBI and MI5 warn about the danger of “game-changing” Chinese operations.

By Katie Stallard

On any other day, it would have dominated the headlines. In an unprecedented joint speech in London on 6 July, the heads of MI5 and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned of the “enduring” and “immense” threat China poses to economic and national security in the US and the UK through industrial espionage, cyber-attacks, and influence operations. 

“The most game-changing challenge we face comes from the Chinese Communist Party [CCP],” MI5 director general Ken McCallum told the audience of business and academic leaders. “It’s covertly applying pressure across the globe. This might feel abstract. But it’s real and it’s pressing. We need to talk about it. We need to act.”

McCallum laid out the details of what he called a “coordinated campaign on a grand scale” by the CCP as part of a “strategic contest across decades”. That campaign involved spying and conventional intelligence operations, such as hacking into computer networks and stealing trade secrets, he said, as well as less obvious approaches such as pursuing commercial deals with Western firms via front companies that require them to share their technology with Chinese partners. The country’s leader Xi Jinping had made no secret of his ambition to “catch up and overtake” the West in areas of core technology, McCallum explained, and where necessary employing asymmetrical methods to advance Chinese capabilities. 

“This means standing on your shoulders to get ahead of you,” McCallum warned. “If you are involved in cutting-edge tech, AI, advanced research or product development, the chances are your know-how is of material interest to the CCP. And if you have, or are trying for, a presence in the Chinese market, you’ll be subject to more attention than you might think.” 

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/china/2022/07/urgent-threat-china-espionage

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Bloomberg News

Sat, July 23, 2022 at 10:32 PM·1 min read

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  Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

 

(Bloomberg) -- China issued strong private warnings to the US government about a planned trip to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which included a possible military response, the Financial Times reported.

The warnings were much stronger than those made previously when China wasn’t pleased with US policies and actions related to Taipei, the paper said, citing unidentified people familiar with the issue.

China’s foreign ministry earlier this week officially vowed to take a “resolute and strong” response to any Taiwan visit by Pelosi, which was reported to be next month. Her trip would be the first by a House speaker to Taipei since 1997.

Pelosi’s office didn’t respond to a request from the Financial Times for comment about whether she might abandon her trip.

Beijing routinely responds angrily to countries that deal directly with Taiwan, which China claims as part of its territory. President Joe Biden also raised doubts about whether the visit would go ahead, saying Wednesday that the military thinks it’s “not a good idea right now.”

 

https://news.yahoo.com/china-issues-private-warnings-us-053243519.html

[Lovecrusader]

under biden administration its tough to nab china ,all they do is some murmurs here and there ...meanwhile chinkies takeover world

[Golwalkar]

@Lovecrusader

I wonder how much say the President's administration has over these things as opposed to the intelligence bodies like the Office of the Director of National Intelligence & the intelligence community in general.  

I mean when do they say ENOUGH is ENOUGH? Who decides when its time to intervene & overstep the President's position, if at all its needed? How are those things assessed? Take the example below. How does that happen in the first place? Was it an oversight? Was it allowed deliberately in a controlled manner, to see how what these moves mean to China? 

Do they have powers bestowed to them by Congress to overstep the administration?

Obivously these are national security matters & are not revealed to the public. Even if any exceptions or overrulings occure wherein the President's decisions do not take precedence, you & I would never know about them. Unless someone in their community leaks it to the press for some reason. 

But all of this begs one big question : does the American public follow the guidance of the President's administration or the guidance of the Intelligence community? Do we take them to be one & the same, in all situations? ( Mind you some of the orders of former President Trump were never carried out or were openly objected to by his own intel community chiefs. These are the orders we know of & not all the orders disobeyed or not complied with, whether involving President Trump or other presidents. )   

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is a senior, cabinet-level United States government official, required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and to direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program (NIP). The DNI also serves, upon invitation, as an advisor to the President of the United States, the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council on all intelligence matters. The DNI, supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), produces the President's Daily Brief (PDB), a top-secret document including intelligence from all IC agencies, handed each morning to the President of the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence

 

Take this recent example: 

How China sunk its teeth into US farmland: Firms tied to communist regime own 192,000 agricultural acres in US worth $1.9 billion and purchased 300 acres in North Dakota 20 minutes from military base, sparking security concerns

 

The China-based food producer Fufeng Group plans to build a corn-milling plant on its newly acquired 300 acres of land in Grand Forks, North Dakota, just 20 minutes down the road from the Grand Forks Air Force Base where some of the nation's most sensitive drone technology is based. The purchase has raised suspicions from military officers, national security experts, and lawmakers alike, who have said the move could give China unprecedented access the goings on of the Air Force base which also has a space networking center that's been characterized as 'the backbone of all U.S. military communications across the globe.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lovecrusader]

1 hour ago, Golwalkar said:

@Lovecrusader

I wonder how much say the President's administration has over these things as opposed to the intelligence bodies like the Office of the Director of National Intelligence & the intelligence community in general.  

I mean when do they say ENOUGH is ENOUGH? Who decides when its time to intervene & overstep the President's position, if at all its needed? How are those things assessed? Take the example below. How does that happen in the first place? Was it an oversight? Was it allowed deliberately in a controlled manner, to see how what these moves mean to China? 

Do they have powers bestowed to them by Congress to overstep the administration?

Obivously these are national security matters & are not revealed to the public. Even if any exceptions or overrulings occure wherein the President's decisions do not take precedence, you & I would never know about them. Unless someone in their community leaks it to the press for some reason. 

But all of this begs one big question : does the American public follow the guidance of the President's administration or the guidance of the Intelligence community? Do we take them to be one & the same, in all situations? ( Mind you some of the orders of former President Trump were never carried out or were openly objected to by his own intel community chiefs. These are the orders we know of & not all the orders disobeyed or not complied with, whether involving President Trump or other presidents. )   

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is a senior, cabinet-level United States government official, required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and to direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program (NIP). The DNI also serves, upon invitation, as an advisor to the President of the United States, the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council on all intelligence matters. The DNI, supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), produces the President's Daily Brief (PDB), a top-secret document including intelligence from all IC agencies, handed each morning to the President of the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence

 

Take this recent example: 

How China sunk its teeth into US farmland: Firms tied to communist regime own 192,000 agricultural acres in US worth $1.9 billion and purchased 300 acres in North Dakota 20 minutes from military base, sparking security concerns

 

The China-based food producer Fufeng Group plans to build a corn-milling plant on its newly acquired 300 acres of land in Grand Forks, North Dakota, just 20 minutes down the road from the Grand Forks Air Force Base where some of the nation's most sensitive drone technology is based. The purchase has raised suspicions from military officers, national security experts, and lawmakers alike, who have said the move could give China unprecedented access the goings on of the Air Force base which also has a space networking center that's been characterized as 'the backbone of all U.S. military communications across the globe.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obviously western democracies is not overly centralised,there are layers ,prime minister's / presidents cant be boss of country ....,so....many Intel operations works accordingly, sometime they give the information some times don't.....and no audit was conducted on those....i think u heard about somewhere in US with no human rights to khaidis ..there...it didn't came out . Even in Dems ,reps presidents for 20,30 years....so....so simple answer can be we don't know...

But let me tell you knows ,US intel is also breached by chinkies through honey traps.   ...