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The sharp increase of industrial, economic and military spying activity in favor of China has recently become a serious problem for the US authorities. The leakage of technology to the Celestial Empire affects a lot to the US economy, while the politicians who allowed that take significant reputational losses. That is why today the case of "Chinese spies" is discussed at the highest level. The congressmen, representatives of the special services, employees of both the State Department and the White House (i.e. all who can somehow influence on the situation) are engaged.
It seems that the real scale of the problem is really impressive. At least, today there are all reasons to believe that, potentially, the most important spheres in the state may be flooded with Chinese spies. Thus, in mid-April, 2018 an article appeared on the Stratfor website stating that the US government, large business and research centers might be infiltrated with some agents of the Chinese special services.
The article:
"USA in Chinese cobweb. American Congressmen cover spies of Celestial Empire
The recent aggravation of the US and Chinese trading relations have had an impact on the inner problems about Chinese Americans. It affected increase in espionage activity in Chinese favor at the territory of the United States of America, initially.
Regrettably, the fact of the constant Chinese espionage in the USA has been no news. It has been taken for granted both by state security agencies and mass media. The issue is not only about lately rise in cases of industrial cyber-spying.
As my colleague Roger Baker likes to say, "there are no former Chinese", there are Overseas Chinese. Regardless of citizenry, each person of Chinese origin has been considered a P.R. China full citizen the moment he sets foot on Chinese land. This also means falling within jurisdiction of Chinese law-enforcement agencies. They have a right to substantive examination of all citizens from abroad and their recruitment, whether it is about a Chinese stall keeper or an American nuclear physicist.
In such ways, legally and openly the Chinese government gains useful and possibly secret information. However, those very non-former Chinese have been working in the American security and intelligence agencies, holding posts in the State Department, making strategic studies in closed military labs, sitting in the Houses of Congress due to the lack of ethnic discrimination in the USA.
There was no obvious connection between caught Chinese spies and Chinese-Americans until fairly recently. On all occasions the criminal trace led over the ocean. For some time though, a fairly strong consistency became discernible in seemingly unrelated cases. Thus all those people willingly cooperated with the police and court authorities. After that they got their slap on the wrist in the form of a short sentence or mere fine for the crimes that cost the Cuban Five several life stretches. Some them managed not only to escape punishment but also to amount to a symbol of "bias and suppression" towards Asian-Americans. As if an invisible hand pulled some strings.
For instance, in 2015, espionage charges against hydrologists Sherry Chen and Xi Xiaoxing were dropped. This inspired protest movement among citizens of Asian Pacific origin. This is where Rep. Judy Chu comes in. She questioned the attorney general at a House Judiciary Committee Oversight hearing, with Chen and Xi present. The very Rep. Chu concluded about "the growing perception that simply being of Asian ancestry or having ties to China can trigger an espionage charge ... that makes Asian Americans feel unwelcome and afraid to pursue prominent careers."
Hereupon, a number of Beijing spies in the USA suddenly reduced. Meanwhile other American citizens only had to become meekly reconciled to the fact that any of their workfellow, or employee, or just a nextdoor of Chinese origin has been able to deliver small information services to his historical homeland without any consequences, if desired. Otherwise, a fearsome figure of the Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee started looming loaded for bear in behalf of another poor victim of American suppression. Lately, everyone caught in espionage in favor of P.R. China occurred to be men of importance in secure agencies, or non-Chinese.
Rep. Chu also earnestly cares for a fate of immigrants of other nationalities, who's been detained attempting to cross the US border by the police service, for security reasons. Even though such support has been limited by expressions of indignation at the Congresswoman's medium page. Seemingly, just "within the four seas, all men are brothers."
It seems that the real scale of the problem is really impressive. At least, today there are all reasons to believe that, potentially, the most important spheres in the state may be flooded with Chinese spies. Thus, in mid-April, 2018 an article appeared on the Stratfor website stating that the US government, large business and research centers might be infiltrated with some agents of the Chinese special services.
The article:
"USA in Chinese cobweb. American Congressmen cover spies of Celestial Empire
The recent aggravation of the US and Chinese trading relations have had an impact on the inner problems about Chinese Americans. It affected increase in espionage activity in Chinese favor at the territory of the United States of America, initially.
Regrettably, the fact of the constant Chinese espionage in the USA has been no news. It has been taken for granted both by state security agencies and mass media. The issue is not only about lately rise in cases of industrial cyber-spying.
As my colleague Roger Baker likes to say, "there are no former Chinese", there are Overseas Chinese. Regardless of citizenry, each person of Chinese origin has been considered a P.R. China full citizen the moment he sets foot on Chinese land. This also means falling within jurisdiction of Chinese law-enforcement agencies. They have a right to substantive examination of all citizens from abroad and their recruitment, whether it is about a Chinese stall keeper or an American nuclear physicist.
In such ways, legally and openly the Chinese government gains useful and possibly secret information. However, those very non-former Chinese have been working in the American security and intelligence agencies, holding posts in the State Department, making strategic studies in closed military labs, sitting in the Houses of Congress due to the lack of ethnic discrimination in the USA.
There was no obvious connection between caught Chinese spies and Chinese-Americans until fairly recently. On all occasions the criminal trace led over the ocean. For some time though, a fairly strong consistency became discernible in seemingly unrelated cases. Thus all those people willingly cooperated with the police and court authorities. After that they got their slap on the wrist in the form of a short sentence or mere fine for the crimes that cost the Cuban Five several life stretches. Some them managed not only to escape punishment but also to amount to a symbol of "bias and suppression" towards Asian-Americans. As if an invisible hand pulled some strings.
For instance, in 2015, espionage charges against hydrologists Sherry Chen and Xi Xiaoxing were dropped. This inspired protest movement among citizens of Asian Pacific origin. This is where Rep. Judy Chu comes in. She questioned the attorney general at a House Judiciary Committee Oversight hearing, with Chen and Xi present. The very Rep. Chu concluded about "the growing perception that simply being of Asian ancestry or having ties to China can trigger an espionage charge ... that makes Asian Americans feel unwelcome and afraid to pursue prominent careers."
Hereupon, a number of Beijing spies in the USA suddenly reduced. Meanwhile other American citizens only had to become meekly reconciled to the fact that any of their workfellow, or employee, or just a nextdoor of Chinese origin has been able to deliver small information services to his historical homeland without any consequences, if desired. Otherwise, a fearsome figure of the Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee started looming loaded for bear in behalf of another poor victim of American suppression. Lately, everyone caught in espionage in favor of P.R. China occurred to be men of importance in secure agencies, or non-Chinese.
Rep. Chu also earnestly cares for a fate of immigrants of other nationalities, who's been detained attempting to cross the US border by the police service, for security reasons. Even though such support has been limited by expressions of indignation at the Congresswoman's medium page. Seemingly, just "within the four seas, all men are brothers."