Author Justas Stankevičius
Last year on July 8th FBI chief Christopher Wray said that the biggest threat to U.S. national security is China. He said “we have reached the point where the FBI launches a new China-related counterintelligence case every 10 hours” and that “even” of the nearly 5,000 active counterintelligence cases currently taking place across the country, involving China. China’s reaction like that of any other communist country in history is predictable. Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry viewed the U.S. statements negatively calling the FBI chief’s positions “full of politically motivated lies” and outweighing the “facts”.
“Fox Hunting”
In his speech, the FBI chief mentioned a program called “fox hunting” which he said was led by Chinese President Xi Jinping himself. Formally this program according to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian is designed to identify Chinese citizens as criminals who managed to evade the letters of the law in China and hid in the United States. But the FBI chief assured that “here we are talking about political rivals, dissidents and critics seeking to expose China’s serious human right abuses”. People who protest in Hong Kong or who dare to criticize the Chinese elite fall into this category. He added that “the Chinese government wants to force them to return to China and China’s tactics of doing so are simply shocking”. But it’s not just the FBI chief talking about China’s threat.
U.S. actions against Chinese espionage
Radical and hostile Chinese policy on security issues provoked a corresponding reaction. For the first time in U.S. history, members of the Chinese Communist Party have been sanctioned in the U.S. for serious violations of ethnic minority rights in China. This means that members of the Chinese Communist Party who have fallen on the sanctions list will no longer be able to use their assets in the U.S. or work with U.S. companies. In addition, previous U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has deprived the mentioned Chinese officials of the opportunity to visit the United States. In addition, the previous U.S. Secretary of State called for the blocking of the TikTok app which is already popular in the Western world as this app could potentially leak personal data to the Chinese government.
Chinese Communist Party propaganda for the U.S. students
In Western Europe and the United States, the People‘s Republic of China has established Chinese cultural centers known as the Confucius Institute. Formally this “institution” introduces Westerners to the Chinese culture and language in schools and universities. We are just wondering what line of narrative the Confucius Institute follows when it comes to the costly Mao revolution? Perhaps this is why the U.S. Senate enacted the Confucius Act, which seeks to limit China’s influence on U.S. schoolchildren and students through the aforementioned Confucius Institute. The official U.S. Senate website stated that “In U.S. universities the Chinese government is building its centers of soft power through its Confucius institutes. Although the Confucius Institute seems to be designed to promote cultural studies in the colleges, it does receive direct funding and guidance from the Chinese government”. Funny, but the Chinese authorities believe that simply renaming the Confucius Institute a “center for language teaching and cooperation” will change something and that they will be able to circumvent US Senate laws.
Chinese companies that have links to Chinese intelligence
On June 12th last year, the U.S. Pentagon released a list of 20 Chinese companies that are involved in Chinese intelligence in one way or another. The Pentagon list allows the U.S. president to declare a national state of emergency and then sanction companies on the list if they operate the U.S. Such companies include Huawei, Axios, China Mobile Communications Group, China Telecommunications, and Hikvision Digital Technologies, etc. It should be noted that these are not new facts. While Barack Obama was the president of the United States Huawei was accused of espionage and U.S. companies were barred from cooperating with Huawei.
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