![]() ![]() The US announced criminal charges in 2014 against five Chinese army hackers for stealing trade secrets from American companies Peter Mattis, a China affairs analyst at the Jamestown Foundation, warned that China’s spy services target young people who travel to China. “FBI investigations and arrests for industrial espionage and violations of export control laws are at an all-time high, predominately linked to the Chinese government,” said Michele Van Cleave, former National Counterintelligence Executive, a senior US government counterspy post.įBI economic espionage cases increased 53% from 2014 to 2015, and the number of cases currently underway is in the hundreds. Major testified at a hearing of the congressional commission the reason China poses a significant espionage threat is the Beijing’s government’s combined use of technical cyber attacks and sophisticated human spying to steal secrets and other information. “The PRC today is the most aggressive intelligence threat facing the United States,” said former FBI Agent David Major, currently director of the CI Centre. Taiwan authorities in recent years have uncovered several high-level spies operating against the Taiwanese government. In Taiwan, a total of 56 Chinese agents were identified between 20, according to the center. ![]() In a Taiwan war Seoul’s problem won’t be Pyongyang Many involved theft of industrial or trade secrets useful to the Chinese military. The CI Centre, a counterintelligence think tank, has identified a total 160 Chinese espionage agents uncovered in the United States between 19, one less than spy cases run by Moscow against the United States. The conspiracy highlighted the key targets of Chinese espionage. Man told an undercover agent in the case that Zhan was a technology spy working for the Chinese military to replicate foreign defense items obtained abroad. According to trial evidence in the case, Man conspired with Chinese national Xinsheng Zhang in China, to illegally acquire and export Pratt & Whitney F135-PW-100 engines used in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan engines used in the F-22 Raptor fighter jet and General Electric F110-GE-132 engines designed for the F-16 fighter jet.Īdditionally, the case involved plans to export the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper/Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle that can be armed with Hellfire missiles. ![]()
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