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Hsieh Chin-Ho 3 points analysis about the two China spy intelligence companies: Company having the word “China” as name suggests that it is an official organisation of China
(26 Nov) The recent cases involving two China’s covered up espionage organisations being exposed by William Wang as China’s spying bases in HK has become media spot-light topics.
Taiwan commentator HSIEH Chin-Ho provided his three points analysis as why China Innovation Investment Ltd (CIIL) and China Trends named specifically by William Wang are genuinely official organisations of China government by the nature and wording of the enterprises’ legal names. There are not many State Owned Enterprises that can officially bear the word “China” as part of their legal names unless they are official organisations of the Chinese government. Hsieh also pointed out the unusual share price patterns of certain listed shell companies in HK, including CIIL. This becomes an unique alternative phenomenon in the share market.
Source: newtalk by LIU Linlin
https://newtalk.tw/news/view/2019-11-26/331839
#WilliamWang #Spy #Australia #CIIL
Hsieh Chin-Ho 3 points analysis about the two China spy intelligence companies: Company having the word “China” as name suggests that it is an official organisation of China
(26 Nov) The recent cases involving two China’s covered up espionage organisations being exposed by William Wang as China’s spying bases in HK has become media spot-light topics.
Taiwan commentator HSIEH Chin-Ho provided his three points analysis as why China Innovation Investment Ltd (CIIL) and China Trends named specifically by William Wang are genuinely official organisations of China government by the nature and wording of the enterprises’ legal names. There are not many State Owned Enterprises that can officially bear the word “China” as part of their legal names unless they are official organisations of the Chinese government. Hsieh also pointed out the unusual share price patterns of certain listed shell companies in HK, including CIIL. This becomes an unique alternative phenomenon in the share market.
Source: newtalk by LIU Linlin
https://newtalk.tw/news/view/2019-11-26/331839
#WilliamWang #Spy #Australia #CIIL
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3點分析共諜案2公司 謝金河：有「中國」就代表是官方企業
近日鬧得沸騰的中國間諜案，自稱間諜的王立強投誠澳洲政府，直指中國創新投資公司、中國趨勢控股有限公司是中共最高情報機構的間諜基地。這兩家公司的負責人向心與妻子龔青，也因此受到台灣司法單位的約談。對此，今（26）日財信傳媒董事長謝金河，就在臉書上提出自己的3點分析。謝金河在臉書上表示，他認為前面能冠上「
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(15 Jan) Three people are under investigation by federal prosecutors in Germany. They are suspected of Chinese spying operations. Till now, no arrests have been made and no further details provided.
Full Article: https://www.thelocal.de/20200115/germany-investigates-three-suspects-over-spying-for-china
#Germany #Spy #China
(15 Jan) Three people are under investigation by federal prosecutors in Germany. They are suspected of Chinese spying operations. Till now, no arrests have been made and no further details provided.
Full Article: https://www.thelocal.de/20200115/germany-investigates-three-suspects-over-spying-for-china
#Germany #Spy #China
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Chinese spies in Malta’s embassy? News to me, says EU’s Borrell
//On Friday, a report in the French daily Le Monde said that Belgian intelligence sources believe Malta’s embassy in Brussels could have been bugged by Chinese spies. The Maltese government said that isn't true.
//According to the French newspaper, "since the early 2010s" Belgian state security suspected that Chinese secret services used the embassy — located directly opposite from the European Commission's Berlaymont headquarters — to spy on the European institutions.
//The spying "could, according to Belgian intelligence, still last today," said the report.
//According to Le Monde, the alarm was sounded by British intelligence who said they believed Chinese secret services were involved in renovation work on the building ahead of its opening in 2007.
//Borrell's relaxed reaction — suggesting the EU would wait to hear from Belgium rather than undertake its own urgent inquiry — could prove risky given recent criticism of the EU's diplomatic arm for being too soft on China and overly accommodating of Beijing's wishes.
//However, it remains unclear whether the EU will open an independent investigation. The European External Action Service didn't reply to a question about what, if any, action has been taken. And diplomats stressed that is crucial to understand who was in charge of the critical ICT infrastructure in the embassy, a task that is usually carried out by national agencies or by certified contractors.
//The article "makes various incorrect allegations that such equipment is being used for illicit purposes," Valletta said, adding that "the Permanent Representation has been the subject of internal and external audits and found the building to be in the clear" and that "80% of the mentioned furniture has over the past 2 years been disposed of and replaced by new furniture procured from Malta."
Full article: Politico, (15 May)
https://www.politico.eu/article/chinese-spies-in-maltas-embassy-news-to-me-says-eus-borrell/
Further reading:
FBI arrests Arkansas professor on fraud charges over financial ties to China
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/20992
#Malta #ChineseInfiltration #Spy
Chinese spies in Malta’s embassy? News to me, says EU’s Borrell
//On Friday, a report in the French daily Le Monde said that Belgian intelligence sources believe Malta’s embassy in Brussels could have been bugged by Chinese spies. The Maltese government said that isn't true.
//According to the French newspaper, "since the early 2010s" Belgian state security suspected that Chinese secret services used the embassy — located directly opposite from the European Commission's Berlaymont headquarters — to spy on the European institutions.
//The spying "could, according to Belgian intelligence, still last today," said the report.
//According to Le Monde, the alarm was sounded by British intelligence who said they believed Chinese secret services were involved in renovation work on the building ahead of its opening in 2007.
//Borrell's relaxed reaction — suggesting the EU would wait to hear from Belgium rather than undertake its own urgent inquiry — could prove risky given recent criticism of the EU's diplomatic arm for being too soft on China and overly accommodating of Beijing's wishes.
//However, it remains unclear whether the EU will open an independent investigation. The European External Action Service didn't reply to a question about what, if any, action has been taken. And diplomats stressed that is crucial to understand who was in charge of the critical ICT infrastructure in the embassy, a task that is usually carried out by national agencies or by certified contractors.
//The article "makes various incorrect allegations that such equipment is being used for illicit purposes," Valletta said, adding that "the Permanent Representation has been the subject of internal and external audits and found the building to be in the clear" and that "80% of the mentioned furniture has over the past 2 years been disposed of and replaced by new furniture procured from Malta."
Full article: Politico, (15 May)
https://www.politico.eu/article/chinese-spies-in-maltas-embassy-news-to-me-says-eus-borrell/
Further reading:
FBI arrests Arkansas professor on fraud charges over financial ties to China
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/20992
#Malta #ChineseInfiltration #Spy
Le Monde.fr
Espionnage : les ombres chinoises de l’ambassade de Malte à Bruxelles
Les services secrets belges s’inquiètent depuis de nombreuses années de la situation de l’ambassade, dont la rénovation a été payée par la Chine, en face du siège de la Commission européenne.
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TikTok ban: Donald Trump to BAN Chinese social media app TikTok in the USA - reports
//Chinese-made social media giant along with almost 60 similar apps, TikTok also may be banned in the US as President Donald Trump cracks down further on China's influence amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, it has emerged.
//Mr Pompeo said the ban is a response to fears the Chinese app may be used by the Beijing government to deliver propaganda and to spy on users.
//Pompeo revealed that he and Trump are taking reports of Beijing surveillance and propaganda through TikTok and other apps incredibly seriously.
//“We have worked on this very issue for a long time, whether its the problem of having Huawei technology in your infrastructure -- we've gone all over the world and we are making real progress getting that out -- we had declared ZTE a danger to American national security.
//He went on to warn American users of Chinese apps that they need to be careful, as they risk putting their private information "in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party”.
//TikTok reported an astonishing 37.2 million American users in 2019, with user growth predicted to surge year on year by 21.9 percent.
//In June, it was reported by Forbes that the app was caught spying on millions of iPhone users again by Apple, after previously being caught in April.
//"many complaints from various sources" about apps that were "stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users' data in an unauthorised manner".
//Some TikTok users have complained about data harvesting, spying, and censorship abuses.
Full Article: Express, (09-Jul)
Further reading:
‘Anything TikTok knows, assume China knows’: Experts urge Canadians to be wary of app
https://globalnews.ca/news/7151982/tiktok-privacy-ban-u-s-canada/
TikTok Caught Red-handed Spying on Millions of Users Secretly
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23011
#US #Tiktok #ChinesePropaganda #spy #risk #App
TikTok ban: Donald Trump to BAN Chinese social media app TikTok in the USA - reports
//Chinese-made social media giant along with almost 60 similar apps, TikTok also may be banned in the US as President Donald Trump cracks down further on China's influence amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, it has emerged.
//Mr Pompeo said the ban is a response to fears the Chinese app may be used by the Beijing government to deliver propaganda and to spy on users.
//Pompeo revealed that he and Trump are taking reports of Beijing surveillance and propaganda through TikTok and other apps incredibly seriously.
//“We have worked on this very issue for a long time, whether its the problem of having Huawei technology in your infrastructure -- we've gone all over the world and we are making real progress getting that out -- we had declared ZTE a danger to American national security.
//He went on to warn American users of Chinese apps that they need to be careful, as they risk putting their private information "in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party”.
//TikTok reported an astonishing 37.2 million American users in 2019, with user growth predicted to surge year on year by 21.9 percent.
//In June, it was reported by Forbes that the app was caught spying on millions of iPhone users again by Apple, after previously being caught in April.
//"many complaints from various sources" about apps that were "stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users' data in an unauthorised manner".
//Some TikTok users have complained about data harvesting, spying, and censorship abuses.
Full Article: Express, (09-Jul)
Further reading:
‘Anything TikTok knows, assume China knows’: Experts urge Canadians to be wary of app
https://globalnews.ca/news/7151982/tiktok-privacy-ban-u-s-canada/
TikTok Caught Red-handed Spying on Millions of Users Secretly
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23011
#US #Tiktok #ChinesePropaganda #spy #risk #App
Express.co.uk
TikTok ban: Donald Trump to BAN Chinese social media app TikTok in the USA - reports
CHINESE social media app TikTok may be banned in the US as President Donald Trump cracks down further on China's influence amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, it has emerged.
#Court #US #China #Spy
Singaporean Pleads Guilty at U.S. Court to Collecting Intelligence for China
A Singaporean man named Jun Wei Yeo, also known as Dickson Yeo, entered a plea of guilty in a U.S. Federal Court to acting as an illegal agent of Chinese intelligence.
In a press release on July 24th, the U.S. Department of Justice stated that Yeo pleaded guilty to working for the Chinese government between 2015 and 2019, utilising his network in the U.S. to set up a false consulting firm and collect sensitive information for the Chinese government.
The statement wrote that Yeo had admitted to establishing a fake consulting company that disguised itself as a government and public relations firm on career networking sites to recruit individuals with ties to the U.S. military and government agencies. These individuals often had access to classified information on technology and policies that would help China advance its own interests. There was also evidence that Yeo recruited other potential targets working in the U.S. to support Chinese intelligence operations.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Yeo himself was recruited by Chinese intelligence agency when he was an employee at National University of Singapore.
Source: Stand News #Jul25
https://bit.ly/2Egv0JR
Singaporean Pleads Guilty at U.S. Court to Collecting Intelligence for China
A Singaporean man named Jun Wei Yeo, also known as Dickson Yeo, entered a plea of guilty in a U.S. Federal Court to acting as an illegal agent of Chinese intelligence.
In a press release on July 24th, the U.S. Department of Justice stated that Yeo pleaded guilty to working for the Chinese government between 2015 and 2019, utilising his network in the U.S. to set up a false consulting firm and collect sensitive information for the Chinese government.
The statement wrote that Yeo had admitted to establishing a fake consulting company that disguised itself as a government and public relations firm on career networking sites to recruit individuals with ties to the U.S. military and government agencies. These individuals often had access to classified information on technology and policies that would help China advance its own interests. There was also evidence that Yeo recruited other potential targets working in the U.S. to support Chinese intelligence operations.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Yeo himself was recruited by Chinese intelligence agency when he was an employee at National University of Singapore.
Source: Stand News #Jul25
https://bit.ly/2Egv0JR
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CCP’s hand has reached Singapore and US long ago
(24 Jul)No one will expect an international relation expert in Singapore is indeed a spy sent by CCP to spy on the US. The show hand of the espionage battle between China and US is only getting more and more intense. First, on researchers like Tang juan, who conceal their military studies background, the states can charge them with Visa fraud, which has a lower bar for prosecution. The merit of such charge is that no-one has to prove any state secret is stolen at all, and 10 years in jail will be given if found guilty. So people can make an example of it, so to scare the Chinese researchers.
The details of the espionage case was released today but the spy had been arrested in Nov 2019. It shows that the intelligence department has already begun tightening the net, and is no longer afraid of alerting the enemy.
Defendant Yao Jun Wei admitted to breaching the Foreign Agents registration act, section 951. This section was used against Cuba, and is then expanded to all agents who threaten the US homeland security. Combining with the Foreign agent registration act, it is being put into full use. As long as the agents are not registered and are acting in substance in their spy role, they commit a crime. In this sense, all those Chinese enterprises who expand their businesses in the US, will easily be affected under this law. Who will disclose that they are indeed working for the CCP? TikTok wishes to sell the business in a rush, and swaps all the Chinese management personnels. This is simply because they, too, fear this law.
Yao Jun Wei expanded his business in the US for the CCP, and runs a fake consultancy company, like those civilian think tanks. Intelligence, that is not publicised, is the most difficult to obtain, and is highly restricted to those in the authority. According to those mole cases disclosed by the Department of State, most were tempted with woman or money. Mostly those in financial difficulty were reached. Yet, when the Trump government arrested these moles high profile, the public servants became more careful and no longer accept gifts easily. This in turn, increases the difficulty for CCP to steal intelligence. Yao Jun Wei’s case demonstrates CCP’s move adapt to such changes.
Yao Jun Wei used Linkedin to “remodify” action of espionage into a legal business. He sent out recruitment ads en masse, and recruited target to write consultancy reports of different subjects. He lied that these reports are for research of Asian clients, and such action will be safe. Each report is priced from USD 1000 to 2000, and this scam is targeted at public servants who want quick money. The court released three examples, in which the CCP obtained three insider news from such operation, including Japan purchasing F35A, the influence of retreat of US army in Afghanistan on China and the confidential background of a cabinet official.
Source: Author
https://bit.ly/30vWdkE
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#ChinaInfluence #Singapore #Spy #YaoJunWei #US #China #Tiktok #EspionageBattle #Linkedin
CCP’s hand has reached Singapore and US long ago
(24 Jul)No one will expect an international relation expert in Singapore is indeed a spy sent by CCP to spy on the US. The show hand of the espionage battle between China and US is only getting more and more intense. First, on researchers like Tang juan, who conceal their military studies background, the states can charge them with Visa fraud, which has a lower bar for prosecution. The merit of such charge is that no-one has to prove any state secret is stolen at all, and 10 years in jail will be given if found guilty. So people can make an example of it, so to scare the Chinese researchers.
The details of the espionage case was released today but the spy had been arrested in Nov 2019. It shows that the intelligence department has already begun tightening the net, and is no longer afraid of alerting the enemy.
Defendant Yao Jun Wei admitted to breaching the Foreign Agents registration act, section 951. This section was used against Cuba, and is then expanded to all agents who threaten the US homeland security. Combining with the Foreign agent registration act, it is being put into full use. As long as the agents are not registered and are acting in substance in their spy role, they commit a crime. In this sense, all those Chinese enterprises who expand their businesses in the US, will easily be affected under this law. Who will disclose that they are indeed working for the CCP? TikTok wishes to sell the business in a rush, and swaps all the Chinese management personnels. This is simply because they, too, fear this law.
Yao Jun Wei expanded his business in the US for the CCP, and runs a fake consultancy company, like those civilian think tanks. Intelligence, that is not publicised, is the most difficult to obtain, and is highly restricted to those in the authority. According to those mole cases disclosed by the Department of State, most were tempted with woman or money. Mostly those in financial difficulty were reached. Yet, when the Trump government arrested these moles high profile, the public servants became more careful and no longer accept gifts easily. This in turn, increases the difficulty for CCP to steal intelligence. Yao Jun Wei’s case demonstrates CCP’s move adapt to such changes.
Yao Jun Wei used Linkedin to “remodify” action of espionage into a legal business. He sent out recruitment ads en masse, and recruited target to write consultancy reports of different subjects. He lied that these reports are for research of Asian clients, and such action will be safe. Each report is priced from USD 1000 to 2000, and this scam is targeted at public servants who want quick money. The court released three examples, in which the CCP obtained three insider news from such operation, including Japan purchasing F35A, the influence of retreat of US army in Afghanistan on China and the confidential background of a cabinet official.
Source: Author
https://bit.ly/30vWdkE
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#ChinaInfluence #Singapore #Spy #YaoJunWei #US #China #Tiktok #EspionageBattle #Linkedin
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#ConfuciusInstitutes #CCPControl #ChinaInfiltration #BrainWash #ShapePower
Bloomberg: Confucius Institutes to be designated as Foreign Mission of the PRC
Source: Stand News #August13
#ForeignMission #ForeignInterference #Spy
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24422
Bloomberg: Confucius Institutes to be designated as Foreign Mission of the PRC
Source: Stand News #August13
#ForeignMission #ForeignInterference #Spy
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24422
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Bloomberg: Confucius Institutes to be designated as Foreign Mission of the PRC
Sources close to the U.S. Department of State told Bloomberg that the Confucius Institute U.S. Centre was to be designed as a foreign mission of the PRC. Shortly after the news was published, the State Department made the official announcement on Thursday, August 13. Such action further escalates the tension between China and the U.S.
Confucius Institutes with heavy presence in universities and colleges around the world, have been established for more than ten years, dedicated to promoting Chinese culture. However, many Western countries recently question the ulterior motive of the institutes using their teaching as a tool to expand political influence. The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) of the U.S. released a report last year that the institutes are used as a propaganda tool controlled by China and have too much control over the institutes in America. Universities and colleges are called on to close their Confucius Institutes.
If the State Department of U.S. requires Confucius Institutes to register as “foreign missions”, it means that the institutes are “substantially owned or effectively controlled” by the Chinese government. According to the Foreign Missions Act, these organisations need to register all personnel roster and their property holdings in the U.S. with the U.S. State Department. They have to follow administrative requirements and to be ruled that similar to embassies and consulates.
Source: Stand News #August13
#ForeignMission #ForeignInterference #Spy
Bloomberg: Confucius Institutes to be designated as Foreign Mission of the PRC
Sources close to the U.S. Department of State told Bloomberg that the Confucius Institute U.S. Centre was to be designed as a foreign mission of the PRC. Shortly after the news was published, the State Department made the official announcement on Thursday, August 13. Such action further escalates the tension between China and the U.S.
Confucius Institutes with heavy presence in universities and colleges around the world, have been established for more than ten years, dedicated to promoting Chinese culture. However, many Western countries recently question the ulterior motive of the institutes using their teaching as a tool to expand political influence. The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) of the U.S. released a report last year that the institutes are used as a propaganda tool controlled by China and have too much control over the institutes in America. Universities and colleges are called on to close their Confucius Institutes.
If the State Department of U.S. requires Confucius Institutes to register as “foreign missions”, it means that the institutes are “substantially owned or effectively controlled” by the Chinese government. According to the Foreign Missions Act, these organisations need to register all personnel roster and their property holdings in the U.S. with the U.S. State Department. They have to follow administrative requirements and to be ruled that similar to embassies and consulates.
Source: Stand News #August13
#ForeignMission #ForeignInterference #Spy
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The Great Spy Game: CCP global espionage footprints
Caption: Mapping out CCP's espionage incidents across the world in the last couple of decades.
Singapore:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24002
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23824
USA:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23440
Malta:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/21068
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16785
Hong Kong:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/12468
United Arab Emirates
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/14224
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/14217
iPhones:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23011
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The Great Spy Game: CCP global espionage footprints
Caption: Mapping out CCP's espionage incidents across the world in the last couple of decades.
Singapore:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24002
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23824
USA:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23440
Malta:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/21068
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16785
Hong Kong:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/12468
United Arab Emirates
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/14224
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/14217
iPhones:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23011
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CCP’s hand has reached Singapore and US long ago
(24 Jul)No one will expect an international relation expert in Singapore is indeed a spy sent by CCP to spy on the US. The show hand of the espionage battle between China and US is only getting…
CCP’s hand has reached Singapore and US long ago
(24 Jul)No one will expect an international relation expert in Singapore is indeed a spy sent by CCP to spy on the US. The show hand of the espionage battle between China and US is only getting…
Australian Defence Force Warns there are Active Foreign Spy, Politicians Call to Reduce Chinese Diplomats Number
Australian Defence Force alerted that a ‘highly-active’ foreign spy agency was planning to steal Australia military secrets. They warned that Australia spent about 9 billion Australian dollars (around 500 billion Hong Kong dollars) to Australia large warship project was an extreme threat. Australian Broadcasting Corporation(ABC) quoted a perspective of an anonymous national security officer, believing that those spy activities were from China.
The news pointed out, Australian Defence Force rejected to disclose the proposal of the shipbuilding project, which submitted to the Federal Government. However, when reporters applied publication of the project to Australian Defence Force according to the “Freedom of Information Act”, but the Force declared they would not make the information public for protecting the national profits of Australia as the spy agency in a foreign country is trying to steal relevant information.
Defense Force warns, “now there is spy agency in a foreign country threatened the national sovereignty and federal strategic interests…. The enemies are highly active and try to get information about the current and future maritime strength of Australia. They aim to expand their profits and to erode the strength of Australia”. Defense Force emphasized some people may use it intentionally if they make the information public, “It will be directly or indirectly damaging the profits of Australia.”
Senator Rex Patrick pointed that, the related statement of Defence Force are really strictly worded and unprecedented, “obviously it is a serious national security problem. The government should take actions, maximally reduce and eliminate the threat.”
Although the Defence Force did not state which country did it, ABC quoted a perspective of an anonymous national security officer, the related spy activities mainly instructed by China. China spy activities are increasingly active, and become the focus of local attention, due to the location of the naval shipbuilding project in Adelaide. The politics call on the Australian Federal Government to order the closure of the Chinese Consulate in Adelaide or reducing the number of diplomats.
Rex Patrick also said that the Chinese Consulate in Adelaide established in 2016, at the same time the Australian government announced the naval shipbuilding project. The attention of Rex Patrick also aroused the concerns of both parties in Congress. The Ruling Liberal Party Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells reminded, in the past Cold War period, the Soviet Union also tried to steal the activities in Australia military study information. She was not surprised by the “diplomatic” work which mass deploying in Adelaide by China. “When the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) or the law enforcement unit discovers any illegal activities, they should expel that 'diplomatic personnel’ .”
The member of the Federal House of Representatives Nick Champion thought, the number of Chinese diplomatic personnel in Chinese Consulate in Adelaide was disproportionally large, the Australian government should negotiate with the Chinese government, reducing the number of related diplomatic personnel.
#Adelaide #Australia #ChineseConsulate #China #Spy #RexPatrck #DefenceForce
Source: Apple Daily #Aug17
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20200817/NS2PEN2GKRAKLOBCUOZRNLETFE/
Australian Defence Force alerted that a ‘highly-active’ foreign spy agency was planning to steal Australia military secrets. They warned that Australia spent about 9 billion Australian dollars (around 500 billion Hong Kong dollars) to Australia large warship project was an extreme threat. Australian Broadcasting Corporation(ABC) quoted a perspective of an anonymous national security officer, believing that those spy activities were from China.
The news pointed out, Australian Defence Force rejected to disclose the proposal of the shipbuilding project, which submitted to the Federal Government. However, when reporters applied publication of the project to Australian Defence Force according to the “Freedom of Information Act”, but the Force declared they would not make the information public for protecting the national profits of Australia as the spy agency in a foreign country is trying to steal relevant information.
Defense Force warns, “now there is spy agency in a foreign country threatened the national sovereignty and federal strategic interests…. The enemies are highly active and try to get information about the current and future maritime strength of Australia. They aim to expand their profits and to erode the strength of Australia”. Defense Force emphasized some people may use it intentionally if they make the information public, “It will be directly or indirectly damaging the profits of Australia.”
Senator Rex Patrick pointed that, the related statement of Defence Force are really strictly worded and unprecedented, “obviously it is a serious national security problem. The government should take actions, maximally reduce and eliminate the threat.”
Although the Defence Force did not state which country did it, ABC quoted a perspective of an anonymous national security officer, the related spy activities mainly instructed by China. China spy activities are increasingly active, and become the focus of local attention, due to the location of the naval shipbuilding project in Adelaide. The politics call on the Australian Federal Government to order the closure of the Chinese Consulate in Adelaide or reducing the number of diplomats.
Rex Patrick also said that the Chinese Consulate in Adelaide established in 2016, at the same time the Australian government announced the naval shipbuilding project. The attention of Rex Patrick also aroused the concerns of both parties in Congress. The Ruling Liberal Party Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells reminded, in the past Cold War period, the Soviet Union also tried to steal the activities in Australia military study information. She was not surprised by the “diplomatic” work which mass deploying in Adelaide by China. “When the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) or the law enforcement unit discovers any illegal activities, they should expel that 'diplomatic personnel’ .”
The member of the Federal House of Representatives Nick Champion thought, the number of Chinese diplomatic personnel in Chinese Consulate in Adelaide was disproportionally large, the Australian government should negotiate with the Chinese government, reducing the number of related diplomatic personnel.
#Adelaide #Australia #ChineseConsulate #China #Spy #RexPatrck #DefenceForce
Source: Apple Daily #Aug17
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20200817/NS2PEN2GKRAKLOBCUOZRNLETFE/
#Newspaper
N.Y.P.D. Officer Is Accused of Spying on Tibetans for China
//Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a New York City police officer with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, accusing him of providing intelligence about Tibetans living in the United States to officials at the Chinese consulate.
//A 25-page criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn accused Mr. Angwang of reporting on the activities of ethnic Tibetans in New York at the behest of Chinese government officials, who were seeking to recruit intelligence sources in the community.
//He also is accused of inviting a Chinese official to N.Y.P.D. events, offering potential access to senior police officials, prosecutors said.
//The allegations raised serious questions about how much visibility Chinese government officials had inside the country’s largest police department and about the extent of Chinese efforts to conduct covert surveillance of Tibetan Americans.
//Chinese Communist Party was seeking to suppress dissent not only in Tibet, “but any place in the world where Tibetans are free to express themselves, starting with the United States of America.”
//Tibetans who agreed to become intelligence sources would be compensated by the Chinese government for information they provided.
//his position was valuable to China because he could provide sensitive information about the internal operations of the Police Department
//His parents are members of the Communist Party, and his father is a retired member of the Chinese military, the complaint said.
Full article: The New York Times, (21 Sep)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/nyregion/nypd-china-tibet-spy.html
#Spy #Tibetan #China #CCP #NYPD #Angwang #Asylum
N.Y.P.D. Officer Is Accused of Spying on Tibetans for China
//Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a New York City police officer with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, accusing him of providing intelligence about Tibetans living in the United States to officials at the Chinese consulate.
//A 25-page criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn accused Mr. Angwang of reporting on the activities of ethnic Tibetans in New York at the behest of Chinese government officials, who were seeking to recruit intelligence sources in the community.
//He also is accused of inviting a Chinese official to N.Y.P.D. events, offering potential access to senior police officials, prosecutors said.
//The allegations raised serious questions about how much visibility Chinese government officials had inside the country’s largest police department and about the extent of Chinese efforts to conduct covert surveillance of Tibetan Americans.
//Chinese Communist Party was seeking to suppress dissent not only in Tibet, “but any place in the world where Tibetans are free to express themselves, starting with the United States of America.”
//Tibetans who agreed to become intelligence sources would be compensated by the Chinese government for information they provided.
//his position was valuable to China because he could provide sensitive information about the internal operations of the Police Department
//His parents are members of the Communist Party, and his father is a retired member of the Chinese military, the complaint said.
Full article: The New York Times, (21 Sep)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/nyregion/nypd-china-tibet-spy.html
#Spy #Tibetan #China #CCP #NYPD #Angwang #Asylum
NY Times
N.Y.P.D. Officer Is Accused of Spying on Tibetans for China (Published 2020)
Prosecutors said the officer told Chinese consulate officials that he could provide sensitive information about the internal operations of the Police Department.
#PoliticalOppression #Vatican #Spy
The Great Spy
CCP Spied on the Vatican and Targeted Catholic Organisations ahead of the renewal of the landmark 2018 China-Vatican provisional agreement.
Source: https://www.recordedfuture.com/reddelta-targets-catholic-organizations/
The Great Spy
CCP Spied on the Vatican and Targeted Catholic Organisations ahead of the renewal of the landmark 2018 China-Vatican provisional agreement.
Source: https://www.recordedfuture.com/reddelta-targets-catholic-organizations/
A Chinese Woman Contacted with Many Politicians in the U.S. and Have Close Relationship, Suspected to Collect Political Intelligence and to Sway Their Decision-Making
A year-long investigation by Axios reported that a Chinese woman with a surname Fang suspected of being a Chinese intelligence officer. She grew close to local political powers and conducted political intelligence missions by assisting with campaign fundraising, participating in political gatherings, and having relationships or sex with at least two Midwestern mayors while studying in California between 2011 and 2015.
While studying in California State University East Bay in 2011, Fang served as a president of the school's Chinese Student Association and a president of the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs (APAPA) campus chapter. Through political gatherings, civil society conferences, campaign rallies, and campus events, she came into contact with elected officials and other prominent figures, such as incumbent California Statewomen Ro Khanna and Judy Chu, and Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who ran for California's district. She also involved in romantic or sexual relationships with at least two mayors for approximately three years. The FBI spotted her having sexual intercourse with elected officials on at least twice.
According to the report, her ultimate target was California U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell. Fang participated in Swalwell's re-election campaign in 2014 and arranged at least one intern in his office. Fang kept interacting with Swalwell several times in several years, until FBI agents alerted him in 2015, after which he severed his ties. She abruptly left the States and returned to China in the same year. However, she did not return to the U.S. nor even contacted her friends in the U.S. or the social networks she has built over the years; Axios inquired her via email and Facebook but had no response.
#US #espionage #China #FBI #Axios #EricSwalwell #SecualRelationship #Spy #Intelligence #CCP
Source: Stand News #Dec09
https://bit.ly/3scLpUk
A year-long investigation by Axios reported that a Chinese woman with a surname Fang suspected of being a Chinese intelligence officer. She grew close to local political powers and conducted political intelligence missions by assisting with campaign fundraising, participating in political gatherings, and having relationships or sex with at least two Midwestern mayors while studying in California between 2011 and 2015.
While studying in California State University East Bay in 2011, Fang served as a president of the school's Chinese Student Association and a president of the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs (APAPA) campus chapter. Through political gatherings, civil society conferences, campaign rallies, and campus events, she came into contact with elected officials and other prominent figures, such as incumbent California Statewomen Ro Khanna and Judy Chu, and Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who ran for California's district. She also involved in romantic or sexual relationships with at least two mayors for approximately three years. The FBI spotted her having sexual intercourse with elected officials on at least twice.
According to the report, her ultimate target was California U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell. Fang participated in Swalwell's re-election campaign in 2014 and arranged at least one intern in his office. Fang kept interacting with Swalwell several times in several years, until FBI agents alerted him in 2015, after which he severed his ties. She abruptly left the States and returned to China in the same year. However, she did not return to the U.S. nor even contacted her friends in the U.S. or the social networks she has built over the years; Axios inquired her via email and Facebook but had no response.
#US #espionage #China #FBI #Axios #EricSwalwell #SecualRelationship #Spy #Intelligence #CCP
Source: Stand News #Dec09
https://bit.ly/3scLpUk
UK expelled 3 Chinese spies who posed as journalist to cover up their identity as intelligence officer of the China's Ministry of State Security
UK newspaper “The Telegraph” reported on Thursday that Britain has expelled 3 Chinese spies who arrived under journalist visas.
The report cited source from the UK government that the 3 intelligence officers of the Ministry of State Security pretended that they worked for 3 Chinese media entities. They were forcibly repatriate to China after their true identities were uncovered by MI5.
Reuters said that the report has not been verified independently.
Also on Thursday, Ofcom announced to revocation of Chinese Global Television Network (CGTN) license in the UK. CGTN is a media owned by China Central Radio and Television, the China official broadcaster, which has been accused of questionable reporting practice such as repeatedly airing forced confession videos. In year 2019, CGTN has multiple reports on the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, and five of them have been ruled biased by Ofcom.
Source: Stand News #Feb05
https://bit.ly/2N2rZ4y
#Expel #Espionage #Spy #China #MinistryOfStateSecurity #CGTN #ChinaCentralRadioAndTelevision #Ofcom #HongKongAntiExtraditionLawMovement
UK newspaper “The Telegraph” reported on Thursday that Britain has expelled 3 Chinese spies who arrived under journalist visas.
The report cited source from the UK government that the 3 intelligence officers of the Ministry of State Security pretended that they worked for 3 Chinese media entities. They were forcibly repatriate to China after their true identities were uncovered by MI5.
Reuters said that the report has not been verified independently.
Also on Thursday, Ofcom announced to revocation of Chinese Global Television Network (CGTN) license in the UK. CGTN is a media owned by China Central Radio and Television, the China official broadcaster, which has been accused of questionable reporting practice such as repeatedly airing forced confession videos. In year 2019, CGTN has multiple reports on the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, and five of them have been ruled biased by Ofcom.
Source: Stand News #Feb05
https://bit.ly/2N2rZ4y
#Expel #Espionage #Spy #China #MinistryOfStateSecurity #CGTN #ChinaCentralRadioAndTelevision #Ofcom #HongKongAntiExtraditionLawMovement
Chinese ‘spy’ aided Congressional Democrats, slept with politicians to gain influence, anonymous US officials claim
A Chinese student slept with two Midwest mayors and cultivated California Democrats while allegedly spying for Beijing, an Axios report said, even as a Beijing professor boasted on video about having ‘people at the top’ in the US.
Between 2011 when she came to the US as a student and her abrupt and unexplained departure in mid-2015, Christine Fang worked her way into the confidences of a number of prominent Democrats in the San Francisco Bay Area, Axios reported on Monday. Fang appeared in photos alongside Judy Chu, Mike Honda, Ro Khanna, and Eric Swalwell – an Intelligence Committee member who rose to prominence by championing the ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy theory against President Donald Trump.
Source: RT international #Dec08
https://www.rt.com/usa/509068-chinese-spy-democrats-swalwell/
#China #US #Spy #Beijing
A Chinese student slept with two Midwest mayors and cultivated California Democrats while allegedly spying for Beijing, an Axios report said, even as a Beijing professor boasted on video about having ‘people at the top’ in the US.
Between 2011 when she came to the US as a student and her abrupt and unexplained departure in mid-2015, Christine Fang worked her way into the confidences of a number of prominent Democrats in the San Francisco Bay Area, Axios reported on Monday. Fang appeared in photos alongside Judy Chu, Mike Honda, Ro Khanna, and Eric Swalwell – an Intelligence Committee member who rose to prominence by championing the ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy theory against President Donald Trump.
Source: RT international #Dec08
https://www.rt.com/usa/509068-chinese-spy-democrats-swalwell/
#China #US #Spy #Beijing
Canadian voters are likely to face foreign cyber interference in the next election, say cyber spies
Canadian voters are likely to face some form of foreign cyber interference ahead and during the next federal election, warns Canada's cyber spy agency, including false information about voter fraud.
However, that meddling is unlikely to match the scale and influence as seen in the U.S., says the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in a new threat assessment report published Friday.
"We assess that an increasing number of threat actors have the cyber tools, the organizational capacity, and a sufficiently advanced understanding of Canada's political landscape to direct cyber activity against future Canadian federal elections, should they have the strategic intent," reads the report.
Source: CBC #Jul16
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-security-threats-cse-1.6104745
#Canadian #Canada #Vote #Spy #CSE
Canadian voters are likely to face some form of foreign cyber interference ahead and during the next federal election, warns Canada's cyber spy agency, including false information about voter fraud.
However, that meddling is unlikely to match the scale and influence as seen in the U.S., says the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in a new threat assessment report published Friday.
"We assess that an increasing number of threat actors have the cyber tools, the organizational capacity, and a sufficiently advanced understanding of Canada's political landscape to direct cyber activity against future Canadian federal elections, should they have the strategic intent," reads the report.
Source: CBC #Jul16
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-security-threats-cse-1.6104745
#Canadian #Canada #Vote #Spy #CSE
Spies for Hire: China’s New Breed of Hackers Blends Espionage and Entrepreneurship
China’s buzzy high-tech companies don’t usually recruit Cambodian speakers, so the job ads for three well-paid positions with those language skills stood out. The ad, seeking writers of research reports, was placed by an internet security start-up in China’s tropical island-province of Hainan.
That start-up was more than it seemed, according to American law enforcement. Hainan Xiandun Technology was part of a web of front companies controlled by China’s secretive state security ministry, according to a federal indictment from May. They hacked computers from the United States to Cambodia to Saudi Arabia, seeking sensitive government data as well as less-obvious spy stuff, like details of a New Jersey company’s fire-suppression system, according to prosecutors.
Source: NY Times #Aug26
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/technology/china-hackers.html
#China #Spy #Hacker #UnitedStates #Cambodia #Saudi #Arabia
China’s buzzy high-tech companies don’t usually recruit Cambodian speakers, so the job ads for three well-paid positions with those language skills stood out. The ad, seeking writers of research reports, was placed by an internet security start-up in China’s tropical island-province of Hainan.
That start-up was more than it seemed, according to American law enforcement. Hainan Xiandun Technology was part of a web of front companies controlled by China’s secretive state security ministry, according to a federal indictment from May. They hacked computers from the United States to Cambodia to Saudi Arabia, seeking sensitive government data as well as less-obvious spy stuff, like details of a New Jersey company’s fire-suppression system, according to prosecutors.
Source: NY Times #Aug26
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/technology/china-hackers.html
#China #Spy #Hacker #UnitedStates #Cambodia #Saudi #Arabia
Taiwan arrested two retired air force officers, reportedly had contacts with Hong Kong businessman and spy for China
According to Taiwan media reports, a retired Air Force major general and a retired lieutenant colonel suspected of breaching the Taiwan National Security Act were arrested. They were accused of involving in a spy ring in Taiwan, which were organised by a businessman from Hong Kong, surnamed Tse, appointed by the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission (Guangzhou division). Tse secretly build up relationships with retired military officers, including these two suspects, for China under the guise of doing business in Taiwan. The Taiwan media described this as “the largest espionage case in the history”.
Taiwan Apple Daily quoted source as saying that the investigation unit found that the Guangzhou branch of Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission sent a Hong Kong businessman surnamed Tse to Taiwan since 2012, under the pretext of business but recruiting crews for China intelligence unit in reality. The businessman contacted Chien Yao-tung and Wei Hsien-yi in 2016 and start to cultivate relationships with active and retired senior military officers. Besides of arranging banquets and gifts, the military officers were also invited to visit Guangdong to meet China officials.
Source: Stand News #Aug19
https://bit.ly/3DPVmN3
#Taiwan #Airforce #MilitaryOfficer #China #Spy #Espionage
According to Taiwan media reports, a retired Air Force major general and a retired lieutenant colonel suspected of breaching the Taiwan National Security Act were arrested. They were accused of involving in a spy ring in Taiwan, which were organised by a businessman from Hong Kong, surnamed Tse, appointed by the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission (Guangzhou division). Tse secretly build up relationships with retired military officers, including these two suspects, for China under the guise of doing business in Taiwan. The Taiwan media described this as “the largest espionage case in the history”.
Taiwan Apple Daily quoted source as saying that the investigation unit found that the Guangzhou branch of Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission sent a Hong Kong businessman surnamed Tse to Taiwan since 2012, under the pretext of business but recruiting crews for China intelligence unit in reality. The businessman contacted Chien Yao-tung and Wei Hsien-yi in 2016 and start to cultivate relationships with active and retired senior military officers. Besides of arranging banquets and gifts, the military officers were also invited to visit Guangdong to meet China officials.
Source: Stand News #Aug19
https://bit.ly/3DPVmN3
#Taiwan #Airforce #MilitaryOfficer #China #Spy #Espionage
Chinese Spies Violate U.S. Sovereignty and Americans’ Rights
A Chinese immigrant found a note stuck in the door of his New Jersey home in September 2018: “If you are willing to go back to mainland [China] and spend 10 years in prison, your wife and children will be all right. That’s the end of this matter!” Welcome to Operation Sky Net, a campaign launched by the Chinese government in 2015 to repatriate overseas “fugitives” through any means.
Under this program, Chinese police and security personnel routinely conduct illegal operations in other countries. Their activities in the U.S. violate their victims’ constitutional rights and make a mockery of our nation’s sovereignty. The U.S. government and law-enforcement community rarely speak out about these acts, much less prosecute the perpetrators. That has to change.
Source: WSJ #May06
https://t.co/KDIz292YOm
#China #Spy #American #US
A Chinese immigrant found a note stuck in the door of his New Jersey home in September 2018: “If you are willing to go back to mainland [China] and spend 10 years in prison, your wife and children will be all right. That’s the end of this matter!” Welcome to Operation Sky Net, a campaign launched by the Chinese government in 2015 to repatriate overseas “fugitives” through any means.
Under this program, Chinese police and security personnel routinely conduct illegal operations in other countries. Their activities in the U.S. violate their victims’ constitutional rights and make a mockery of our nation’s sovereignty. The U.S. government and law-enforcement community rarely speak out about these acts, much less prosecute the perpetrators. That has to change.
Source: WSJ #May06
https://t.co/KDIz292YOm
#China #Spy #American #US
U.K. spy chief warns China’s use of technology threatens global security
From satellite systems to digital currencies, China is seeking to use new technologies to repress dissent at home and dominate its adversaries abroad, according to a U.K. intelligence chief.
Unlike Britain or its democratic allies, China views technological advances as a “tool to gain advantage through control of their markets, of those in their sphere of influence and of their own citizens,” according to excerpts of a speech by Jeremy Fleming, head of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), U.K.’s electronic spy agency.
Source: NBC News #Oct11
#UK #China #Spy #GCHQ
https://t.co/k7gWQogg3e
From satellite systems to digital currencies, China is seeking to use new technologies to repress dissent at home and dominate its adversaries abroad, according to a U.K. intelligence chief.
Unlike Britain or its democratic allies, China views technological advances as a “tool to gain advantage through control of their markets, of those in their sphere of influence and of their own citizens,” according to excerpts of a speech by Jeremy Fleming, head of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), U.K.’s electronic spy agency.
Source: NBC News #Oct11
#UK #China #Spy #GCHQ
https://t.co/k7gWQogg3e