SCMP: FBI counter-intelligence official warns US to unite against Chinese espionage threats
* Cautions are issued amid news of a Marriott data breach linked to Chinese hackers and the extradition case of a Huawei executive
* US lawmakers are told that China ‘is the most severe counter-intelligence threat facing our country today’
Calling China “the most severe counter-intelligence threat facing our country today”, a senior FBI official told US lawmakers on Wednesday that the American government, along with the business and academic communities, must adopt a more integrated approach to Beijing’s commercial espionage efforts.
“Make no mistake,” Bill Priestap, the bureau’s assistant director of counter-intelligence, said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington. “The Chinese government is proposing itself as an alternative model for the world, one without a democratic system of government, and it is seeking to undermine the free and open rules-based order we helped establish following world war two.”
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WNU Editor: The media and political focus in Washington is on Russia, Russia, and Russia. But as I have mentioned more than once on this blog, when compared to what China has and is doing, Russia is just a "piker".
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