china, chinese espionage, huawei, united kingdom

How China Is Successfully Infiltrating British Society

Intelligence experts from the UK are warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is extending its influence into all areas of British society, putting themselves in a position to determine the course of the country by infiltrating British society. This is at a time when the UK has banned Chinese company Huawei from setting up ...

Max Lu

The British flag.

FBI Director: Chinese Regime ‘Engages in Broad, Diverse Campaign of Theft and Malign Influence’

The FBI Director has spoken openly, and at length, about how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) threatens the economic and national security of the U.S. “The greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information and intellectual property, and to our economic vitality, is the counterintelligence and economic espionage threat from China,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray ...

Jack Roberts

FBI Director Christopher Wray..

U.S. Sentences Chinese Communist Spy to 4-Year Jail Term

A Chinese national from California has been sentenced to four years in prison for being a communist spy for Beijing. The convict, 56-year-old Edward Peng, used to work as a tour operator in the San Francisco Bay Area. “This case exposed one of the ways that Chinese intelligence officers work to collect classified information from ...

Jack Roberts

U.S. District Court criminal complaint.

China Targeting U.S. Universities One by One

The U.S. educational system is under attack from China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is sending spies into institutions to steal high-value knowledge in various fields. Though most espionage activities go undetected and cause huge losses to U.S. research, intelligence agencies have been successful in catching a few such spies red-handed over the ...

Max Lu

Harvard University.

FBI: China Is the Biggest Tech Thief

Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI, has pointed to China as the single biggest law enforcement threat and tech thief facing the United States and warned that Beijing was seeking to acquire American technology through any means necessary. He was speaking at a conference held by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in ...

Jack Roberts

The FBI emblem.

Germany: Raids on People Suspected of Being Chinese Spies

Germany recently raided the homes and offices of three individuals who are suspected of being Chinese spies. No one has been arrested as of yet, although two of the suspects passed on information to China while the third did not actually pass on anything. Chinese spies? “One of the three suspects was a German national ...

Jack Roberts

Spy Threat: United States Secretly Expels Chinese Officials

For the past few years, U.S. intelligence agencies have been warning about the threat of Chinese espionage. Recently, the administration apparently expelled two Chinese Embassy officials in secret after they drove onto a military base in the state of Virginia. The last time Chinese officials were expelled by the American government was in 1987. The ...

Jack Roberts

A military base restricted entry.

Chinese Spy Defects to Australia

Wang Liqiang, a man who claims to be a Chinese spy, has defected to Australia and revealed how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is derailing democracy in Hong Kong and meddling in Taiwan. He also gave Australian authorities information on Beijing’s attempts to infiltrate Australian politics. Chinese spy defects In April, Wang traveled to Australia ...

Max Lu

Chinese spy Wang Liqiang.

Text Messages and Phone Records Intercepted by Chinese Hackers

A group of Chinese hackers backed by Beijing hacked into telecommunication companies, stealing textual content of “geopolitical interest,” according to a new report by cybersecurity firm, FireEye. Names of the countries, companies, and individuals subject to the hack have not been revealed. Phone hackers The hacking job was done by the infamous APT41 group through ...

Jack Roberts

The Anonymous hacker group.

Californian Arrested for Espionage on Behalf of Beijing

Edward Peng, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested by the police in late September on charges of espionage for the Chinese government. A resident of Hayward, California, Peng has a background in traditional Chinese medicine and mechanical engineering. Caught in espionage After arriving in the U.S. in 2001, Peng worked as an acupuncturist during the ...

Max Lu

American officials are spying for China.