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Zoom Executive Exposed as Chinese Communist Spy

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A former executive at Zoom, who shut down video conferences that were not flattering to China, was exposed as a spy for the Chinese Communist Party, according to the Department of Justice.

Xinjiang Jin, aka Julien Jin, was an employee of the American video conferencing company. The 39-year-old, who was based in China’s Zhejiang Province, worked as a “security technical leader” for tech company headquartered in San Jose, California. Jin served as a liaison between Zoom and the Chinese government after Beijing blocked the company’s service in China in September 2019.

Jin provided the Chinese Communist Party with information about users and meetings, even supplying the CCP with IP addresses from anyone who held anti-China sentiments, say federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York.

According to the complaint filed in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Jin reportedly participated in a plot to disrupt a series of meetings in May and June that commemorated the Tiananmen Square massacre, where at least 280 pro-democracy demonstrators were shot dead.

In the CCP’s bidding, it is reported that at least four video meetings commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre were infiltrated and terminated. Jin and his co-conspirators reportedly contrived false accusations, including child porn and terrorism, against Zoom users in the United States. (Read more from “Zoom Executive Exposed as Chinese Communist Spy ” HERE)

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Deep State Pushes to Deep-Six Intelligence Report Demonstrating Chinese Interference in 2020 Election

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Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe is considering not signing an intelligence report to Congress if it does not accurately reflect an ongoing debate among intelligence community career analysts over Chinese attempts to influence American voters in the 2020 election, according to a source familiar with the issue.

The intelligence report on foreign efforts to influence the 2020 election is due to Congress on Friday, but Ratcliffe is concerned it will not accurately reflect the debate among senior intelligence community analysts as to the extent of China’s influence operations during the election, according to the source.

There is allegedly “ample” raw intelligence about China’s intentions and actions related to the election, with more intelligence reporting coming in everyday. Some of the influence operations include social media campaigns seeking to amplify messages such as that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist.

However, senior career analysts disagree on the significance of those influence operations. Some analysts argue that they were minimal or ultimately not acted on, while others say it is extensive and far more than previously known. The disagreement includes whether there should be a China section in the report, according to the source.

Despite this serious debate, Ratcliffe is concerned that proper tradecraft — which would require that the disagreement be reflected in the report with both views represented — will not be followed simply in order to deprive President Trump of a potential political talking point. (Read more from “Deep State Pushes to Deep-Six Intelligence Report Demonstrating Chinese Interference in 2020 Election” HERE)

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China Spied on Americans Traveling Abroad, Expert Finds

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China allegedly used telecommunications networks in the Caribbean to spy on Americans traveling abroad, according to a network security expert’s findings reported by the Guardian.

Using a state-controlled tech giant, Chinese officials allegedly conducted surveillance attacks to track and intercept communications of mobile phone users without their knowledge. China has engaged in the practice since at least 2018, targeting 3G and 4G phone users, a former telecommunications security executive told the Guardian.

The surveillance attacks largely occurred in countries such as Barbados and the Bahamas, affecting potentially tens of thousands of users, including U.S. citizens abroad.

The majority of the attacks on mobile phones were routed through the state-owned telecommunications company China Unicom, according to the security expert. Simultaneous surveillance intrusions were traced to Caribbean-based companies, though the expert suggested they may not have knowingly participated in malicious data theft but simply leased a network address to a Chinese entity carrying out surveillance. (Read more from “China Spied on Americans Traveling Abroad, Expert Finds” HERE)

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AMERICA COMPROMISED: Leaked Database Reveals China Has Embedded Thousands of Spies in U.S., Other Western Governments

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The Daily Mail out of Australia claims that “thousands of CCP members have infiltrated corporations” and that the “Chinese ‘state-sponsored spy ring’ [has also] infiltrated Australian, British and US consulates.”

The news outlet describes the “extraordinary leak of a database of 1.95 million registered Chinese Communist Party members. . . believed to be the first of its kind,” and contends that it reveals “how Beijing’s influence has stretched into every corner of Western governments, defence firms, banks and pharmaceutical giants.”

Apparently, a communist Chinese database was hacked by dissidents who ultimately published the party membership list on the encrypted messaging platform, Telegram.

The Daily Mail contends that “[h]undreds of Communist Party members listed in the database were exposed as working in top corporations including defence aerospace firm Boeing, Airbus and Rolls-Royce.”

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Former CIA Station Chief: Swalwell Report Shows China ‘Ruthlessly Focused’ on U.S. Spying

By Fox News. The extent of the Chinese espionage efforts in the United States is diverse and ubiquitous, and checking it requires working with local leaders to stop the kind of targeting that ensnared Rep. Eric Swalwell, a former top CIA official told Fox News on Friday.

“China practices their own Orwellian espionage on their citizens and they’re mounting a full-throttle espionage campaign against us here,” former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman told “America’s Newsroom.” If we don’t come together as Democrats and Republicans, we won’t be able to counter them very well.”

Swalwell, D-Calif., is under fire for ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, raising questions about how extensive China’s spying is in the United States. Axios reported earlier this week that a woman named Christine Fang, who is also known as Fang Fang, allegedly developed ties with local and national politicians, including Swalwell. Fang reportedly met Swalwell more than six years ago when he was a councilman before he was elected to Congress.

That same report said that Fang allegedly had sexual encounters with at least two Midwestern mayors, which raised questions about Swalwell’s relationship with Fang. China reportedly has a history of conducting suspicious activities to gain access to and influence U.S. political circles. (Read more from “Former CIA Station Chief: Swalwell Report Shows China ‘Ruthlessly Focused’ on U.S. Spying” HERE)

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Pompeo Accuses U.S. University of Abandoning Student in Chinese Reeducation Camp

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An official at the University of Washington refused to seek the release of a Chinese national sent to a “reeducation camp” after studying at the university “because of a multimillion-dollar deal with China,” according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

“Now, thank God, Vera was eventually released and returned to the U.S. — but no thanks to the University of Washington and no thanks to the deal that it had made with the Chinese Communist Party,” Pompeo said Wednesday at Georgia Tech, referring to the once-detained student named Vera Zhou.

Pompeo identified by name schools and university officials he regards as wary of crossing Beijing while making the case that Chinese Communist authorities are exploiting the latent “anti-Americanism” and greed of U.S. schools at the expense of national security.

“Americans must know how the CCP is poisoning the well of our higher education for its own ends and how those actions degrade our freedoms and our national security,” Pompeo said. “If we don’t educate ourselves, we’ll get schooled by Beijing.” (Read more from “Pompeo Accuses U.S. University of Abandoning Student in Chinese Reeducation Camp” HERE)

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China Threatens U.S. With ‘Stern’ Retaliation Over Hong Kong Sanctions

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China has vowed it will hit back against U.S. sanctions of its lawmakers following Beijing’s clampdown on freedoms in Hong Kong.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said 14 vice chairs of the standing committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) would face asset freezes and travel bans, accusing Beijing of an “unrelenting assault against Hong Kong’s democratic processes.” . . .

On Tuesday, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a press conference there would be “stern and forceful” countermeasures to the U.S. actions.

She said the sanctions “revealed the U.S. side’s dangerous intentions to interfere in Chinese domestic affairs, destabilize Hong Kong and obstruct China’s stability and development.” (Read more from “China Threatens U.S. With ‘Stern’ Retaliation Over Hong Kong Sanctions” HERE)

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FBI Surveillance: Chinese Spy had Sex with at Least Two Midwestern Mayors, Involved with Many Democrats

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A suspected Chinese intelligence operative developed extensive ties with local and national politicians, including a U.S. congressman, in what U.S. officials believe was a political intelligence operation run by China’s main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015, Axios found in a yearlong investigation.

The woman at the center of the operation, a Chinese national named Fang Fang or Christine Fang, targeted up-and-coming local politicians in the Bay Area and across the country who had the potential to make it big on the national stage.

Through campaign fundraising, extensive networking, personal charisma, and romantic or sexual relationships with at least two Midwestern mayors, Fang was able to gain proximity to political power, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials and one former elected official.

Among the most significant targets of Fang’s efforts was Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.).

Fang took part in fundraising activity for Swalwell’s 2014 re-election campaign, according to a Bay Area political operative and a current U.S. intelligence official. Swalwell’s office was directly aware of these activities on its behalf, the political operative said. That same political operative, who witnessed Fang fundraising on Swalwell’s behalf, found no evidence of illegal contributions.

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Trump Administration Limits Visas for Chinese Communist Party Members

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The Trump administration on Wednesday declared new restrictions on Chinese Communist Party members entering the United States on travel visas, a State Department spokesman told the New York Times.

New restrictions would limit the duration of visitor visa clearances for party members and their families to one month. Visitor visas to the United States for citizens of China generally last up to 10 years. The State Department spokesman maintained that visas for purposes such as work or immigration will not be subject to the new restriction.

When combining current members of the CCP with their family members, the new policy could apply to up to 270 million people, including some 92 million CCP members, according to the Times.

New visa restrictions coincide with “ongoing policy, regulatory, and law-enforcement action across the U.S. government to protect our nation from the CCP’s malign influence,” the State Department spokesman told the Times. “For decades we allowed the CCP free and unfettered access to U.S. institutions and businesses while these same privileges were never extended freely to U.S. citizens in China.” (Read more from “Trump Administration Limits Visas for Chinese Communist Party Members” HERE)

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Democrat on House Intel Committee Sides With Communist China Over U.S. Senator

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Illinois Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi accused Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of racism on Twitter Thursday, aligning himself with a representative of Chinese communist-sponsored media who also hurled insults and profanities at the sitting senator just a few hours prior.

“China has a 5,000 year history of cheating and stealing,” Blackburn wrote on Twitter Thursday. “Some things will never change.”

Apparently the statement of fact has been found controversial.

“The last thing we need is a United States Senator engaging in generalizations so racist and ignorant,” wrote back Krishnamoorti, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee.

(Read more from “Democrat on House Intel Committee Sides With Communist China Over U.S. Senator” HERE)

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More Than 1,000 Researchers Linked to Chinese Military Left U.S. After Summer Crackdown Began, DOJ Official Says

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A top Justice Department official said more than 1,000 foreign researchers affiliated with the Chinese military left the United States following a crackdown this summer that resulted in half a dozen members of China’s People’s Liberation Army studying in the U.S. being arrested and charged with lying on their student visa applications.

The revelation was made by John Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security and the head of the Justice Department’s China Initiative, during a discussion with National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina and Wall Street Journal reporter Aruna Viswanatha in an Aspen Cyber Summit video interview on Wednesday.

“Just this summer, we arrested five or six researchers who were here from China on visas who were affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army, the Chinese military, but who hadn’t disclosed that affiliation, had hidden that affiliation, when they applied for their visas. Those five or six arrests were just the tip of the iceberg, and honestly, the six of the iceberg is one that I don’t know that we or other folks realized how large it was when we began down that road,” Demers said. “But between those five and six arrests, between the dozens of interviews that the bureau did of individuals who were here under similar circumstances, and then ultimately the closure of the Houston consulate to disrupt both foreign influence activity and economic espionage activity, more than 1,000 PLA-affiliated Chinese researchers left the country.”

The DOJ official added: “So our prosecutions were just the beginning of that, but they allowed us to message to the Chinese government that if you’re going to send individuals here, you’ve gotta do so honestly, and you can’t do so hiding their affiliation to the PLA and Chinese military universities … What we’re trying to do in the cases is not just arrest that individual but disrupt a broader course of activity.” (Read more from “More Than 1,000 Researchers Linked to Chinese Military Left U.S. After Summer Crackdown Began, DOJ Official Says” HERE)

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