Chicoms hacked State Department before meeting with John Kerry

 Headline USA:

Hackers linked to the Chinese Communist Party reportedly broke into the emails of U.S. Chinese Ambassador Nicholas Burns and Daniel Kritenbrink, assistant secretary of state for East Asia, prior to a meeting with climate czar John Kerry.

The hacks occurred just before a four-day visit from Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, to discuss climate policies with officials from the Asian superpower and geopolitical rival, according to the Daily Caller.

Initial reports of the hacks did not detail the extent of the damage done, but hackers may have gained access to hundreds of of thousands of U.S. government emails.

Burns, Kritenbrink, Kerry and Secretary of State Antony Blinken all met with Chinese officials—including Chinese President Xi Jinping—in mid-June.

Investigators considered the meeting between Xi and Blinken as the possible point of the initial attack, though Blinken and his closest advisors were not said to have been compromised.

The stolen emails reportedly did not contain any highly classified documents.

Cybersecurity professionals in the State Department initially discovered the breach sometime in mid-June, but officials did not specify exactly when. Blinken visited China on June 18 and 19.

Another high-level visit from a Biden Cabinet member, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, followed shortly thereafter, during which Yellen was criticized for repeatedly bowing to Xi and downplaying China’s intention to destabilize and supplant the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency.

Kerry walked away from the climate meetings with nothing to show for it, as China seemed to be staunchly against American intervention and strict green initiatives.
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China is a hostile power and this administration does not appear willing to treat it as such and is getting pushed around diplomatically. 

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