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  Federalist Wire: A Chinese doctor who fled her homeland after exposing controversial COVID-19 research claims that scientists from China working in American laboratories are systematically trained to steal intellectual property for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), raising alarms about national security threats embedded within U.S. research institutions. Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese-educated doctor born in Qingdao, China, asserts that Chinese scientists are bound by government contracts to pilfer U.S. research, technology, and other valuable assets for the benefit of the CCP. “Scientists getting visa from China to the US, they are visiting scholars. They have signed the contract with Chinese government to go back to China, serve China with whatever they can get from the US,” Yan said during a recent television interview. Her statements suggest a calculated effort by the CCP to exploit U.S. openness in academic exchanges. Yan’s claims align with recent actions by the Trump administrati...

 DC Daily Journal: ... Federal authorities have charged two Chinese nationals with espionage for allegedly conducting a multi-year operation to infiltrate U.S. Navy personnel and installations on behalf of Beijing’s intelligence services. The arrests mark a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to counter Chinese espionage on American soil. The FBI apprehended Yuance Chen and Liren “Ryan” Lai on Friday after a lengthy investigation revealed a sophisticated scheme involving cash dead drops and covert surveillance of Navy facilities. Court documents detail how the duo allegedly targeted sailors and recruitment centers to gather sensitive information for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). ... “Two Chinese nationals were caught spying on our Navy and trying to recruit American service members for the CCP’s intel service. Our FBI won’t stand for it. We tracked them, we stopped them, and we’re not done yet,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X, highlighting t...

 Federalist Wire: ... A Chinese doctor who fled her homeland after exposing controversial COVID-19 research claims that scientists from China working in American laboratories are systematically trained to steal intellectual property for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), raising alarms about national security threats embedded within U.S. research institutions. Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese-educated doctor born in Qingdao, China, asserts that Chinese scientists are bound by government contracts to pilfer U.S. research, technology, and other valuable assets for the benefit of the CCP. “Scientists getting visa from China to the US, they are visiting scholars. They have signed the contract with Chinese government to go back to China, serve China with whatever they can get from the US,” Yan said during a recent television interview. Her statements suggest a calculated effort by the CCP to exploit U.S. openness in academic exchanges. Yan’s claims align with recent actions by the Trump administr...

  Newsmax: A top Chinese leader admitted to a Biden administration delegation in a December meeting that it was behind cyberattacks against the United States. The Wall Street Journal reported on the admission, which left members of the U.S. delegation at the secret meeting in Geneva "startled" after hearing repeated denials of involvement from the Chinese. The Journal report is based on unnamed sources familiar with the meeting. They indicated the Chinese were apparently warning the U.S. away from continued support of Taiwan. Dakota Cary, a China specialist at the cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, told the Journal, "A Chinese official would likely only acknowledge the intrusions even in a private setting if instructed to do so by the top levels of Xi's [President Xi Jinping's] government." ... This goes beyond the normal espionage used by hostile powers.  The story does not indicate what countermeasures the US used to deal with the threat. See also: Biden Ad...

 The Federalist Wire: ... American government laboratories are increasingly vulnerable to espionage from foreign adversaries, former Energy Department and national security officials warned lawmakers on Thursday. They pointed to growing concerns, particularly regarding Chinese researchers collaborating on “nuclear weapons work” with their U.S. counterparts. Testifying before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, two former Department of Energy (DOE) undersecretaries for science and a former U.S. counterintelligence officer raised alarms about scientific espionage siphoning American innovations to develop advanced weaponry and technology abroad. “China puts tremendous pressure in appropriating this innovation and then manufacturing it,” said Paul Dabbar, who served as energy undersecretary for science during the first Trump administration. He referred to intellectual property theft occurring within the DOE’s 17 national laboratories. According to Dabbar, researchers act...

 Just the News: A former Senior Adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB) has been arrested on economic espionage charges. John Harold Rogers, 63, of Vienna, Virginia, allegedly "conspired to steal Federal Reserve trade secrets for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)," according to a Justice Department news release on Friday. Devin DeBacker, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, said DOJ plans to "use all the tools at its disposal to disrupt economic espionage and protect our national security.” U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. for the District of Columbia said this indictment serves as a "warning to all who seek to betray or exploit the United States," emphasizing that U.S. law enforcement will find offenders and hold them accountable. ... They need to determine who in China was behind this espionage and deal with them too. 

 Daily Mail: Tucker Carlson  has made a shocking claim about the mysterious drones that plagued  New Jersey  for over a month, saying they were controlled by Chinese mothership satellite. The first sightings appeared  over the Picatinny Arsenal in Rockaway  and President-elect  Donald Trump 's golf course in Bedminster in November, followed by thousands more in the skies. While the US government was quick to dismiss claims they were  foreign adversaries , Carlson claimed he was told otherwise. He said 'an intel person' told him that the drones 'were in fact Chinese,' explaining the US government took down a Chinese satellite 'that was a command and control satellite for these drones.' Carlson appeared to be hinting at a Beijing-operated satellite known as GaoJing 1-02 which fell from space on December 21.  Astronomers tracking such devices confirmed the Chinese satellite re-entered Earth's atmosphere above  New Orleans  an...

 American Action News: The Biden State Department has seemingly ignored mounting evidence of China running influence and intel operations from its diplomatic posts. And national security experts and China hardliners say Americans shouldn’t expect the administration to take action anytime soon. Linda Sun, a former high-level official under Gov. Kathy Hochul, was arrested on Sep. 3 on allegations of acting on behalf of China’s government at the direction of the New York Chinese consulate, adding to a growing list of allegations of Chinese influence activities. The State Department has several tools to deter Beijing and Chinese consulates from such activities but has not taken any visible measures to do so, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “There is a range of things the State Department could be doing… The least they could do is to reiterate the warnings of the previous [Trump administration], and where they see need of it, improve upon the warnings of the previous adm...

 Fox News: Chinese illegal immigrant arrested after driving onto military base in California A top Border Patrol official said the case is still being investigated Many Chinese illegal immigrants have been crossing Biden's open border with Mexico. 

 Wall Street Journal: Espionage Probe Finds Communications Device on Chinese Cranes at U.S. Ports Lawmakers’ discovery has fueled worries in Washington that the China-built equipment could be a national-security threat at America’s ports Is there another logical reasons for having the devices on the cranes? 

 American Action News: A Republican lawmaker called on the Biden administration to investigate a Chinese government-tied company that plans to build a facility near several Midwest military sites, according to a letter shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation on Monday. Rep. Jake LaTurner of Kansas sent a letter to the Department of Defense and Treasury Department expressing “strong concerns” about Cnano Technology USA Inc. (Cnano USA), which is planning to build a $95 million manufacturing facility for liquid conductive paste near at least four military installations in and around his state. Cnano USA’s China-based parent company has close ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and has participated in a state-run program that works to acquire American technology to support the development of China’s military, LaTurner’s letter states, citing a recent DCNF investigation. “Cnano Technology USA, which is a subsidiary of Cnano Jiangsu Technology Co., Ltd. has be...

 CNN: Chinese spy balloon used US internet provider to communicate its location ... CNN was not able to identify the internet service provider. CNN has previously reported that officials said the balloon was capable of communicating with Beijing as it traveled across the US. NBC News first reported that the balloon used a US network to communicate with Beijing. The network connection was not used to transmit intelligence back to China, according to the official. The balloon stored that information for later, including imagery and other data, which the US has since been able to study after shooting it down in February. The FBI and the Director of the Office of National Intelligence declined to comment. CNN has reached out to the Chinese Embassy in Washington. China has continued to maintain that the balloon was a weather balloon that blew off course. The US assessed at the time that the spy balloon was part of an extensive surveillance program run by the Chinese military, CNN has ...

 Townhall: Wait, The Biden Administration Wanted to Cover Up the Chinese Spy Balloon Incident? That balloon was huge and easy to see with the naked eye.  Why they thought it would go unnoticed is a mystery. 

 American Action News: A Communist Chinese spy balloon that traveled completely across the United States in February, appearing to collect information on U.S. military facilities before it was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean, was made from publicly available American technology, the Wall Street Journal revealed. “The debris collected include scraps from a satellite-like object with sensors, solar panels that powered the craft, a propeller that allowed it to maneuver and loiter over sensitive sites for long periods, as well as a mix of other off-the-shelf and specially designed devices to capture imagery and radar data. It was unclear as of Thursday afternoon which specific items were American-made,” the New York Post reported. The revelation is prompting some in Congress calling on tighter export controls over goods sold to Communist China. ... This could explain why China was so upset when the US shot down the balloon.  This led to the discovery of how they were using US te...

 Breitbart: During Sunday’s broadcast of FNC’s “MediaBuzz,” Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz argued against the Department of Justice’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump. According to Dershowitz, the case was not about espionage or national security but documents, which he said may not justify interfering with a presidential election. “He’d be a difficult client, but being a difficult client doesn’t mean that you should be prosecuted for a crime when you’re running for president against the incumbent president,” he said. “There has to be the strongest possible case to justify that. I call it the Nixon standard. In Nixon’s case, he destroyed evidence, he bribed witnesses, and Republicans and Democrats alike wanted him to be removed from office. That standard hasn’t been met here. And in order to prosecute somebody who’s running for president against the incumbent, it has to be not only slam dunk, but it has to be something that’s just inescapable.” ... ...

 Breitbart: On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz commented on the indictment against former President Donald Trump and the Espionage Act charges contained in the indictment by saying that the Espionage Act “is one of the most dangerous and unconstitutional statutes ever passed” that was passed with the intent to jail dissidents. And that for several decades, “every liberal, every progressive, every Democrat I know was against this statute” but now they are “all rooting for it to be applied broadly to conduct that has nothing to do with espionage” and didn’t put national security at risk. ... It is an allegation that literally makes no sense.  Dershowitz is right on point in challenging the allegations.

 Reuters: When an alleged Chinese spy balloon traversed the United States in February, some U.S. officials were confident the incursion would galvanize the U.S. bureaucracy to push forward a slate of actions to counter China. Instead, the U.S. State Department held back human rights-related sanctions, export controls and other sensitive actions to try to limit damage to the U.S.-China relationship, according to four sources with direct knowledge of U.S. policy, as well as internal emails seen by Reuters. The delays to items on the department's "competitive actions" calendar, a classified rolling list of steps the Biden administration has planned related to China, have alarmed some U.S. officials and revealed a divide between those in the U.S. government pushing for tougher action against China and others advocating a more restrained approach. While the State Department signaled U.S. displeasure over the balloon by postponing Secretary of State Antony Blinken's schedul...

 Business Insider: Russian security agents have been using a secret network of corrupted computers to spy on NATO for decades, but the US just busted it open, feds say ... The FBI managed to disrupt a global network of computers that had been compromised by a "sophisticated malware" known as "Snake," the Justice Department said in a statement . To do this, the agency carried out a court-authorized operation to disable Snake on compromised computers by using a tool that instructed the malware to destroy itself. For nearly two decades, a unit within Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) — successor to the Soviet-era KGB — has used Snake to target and steal sensitive documents from computer systems in dozens of countries across the world, including NATO members, the Justice Department said. ... It may take an election to stop the Chinese espionage operation that Joe Bieden appears to show no interest in. 

 Reuters: A leaked U.S. military assessment says the Chinese military may soon deploy a high-altitude spy drone that travels at least three times the speed of sound, the Washington Post reported late on Tuesday. The newspaper cited a secret document from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The document, which Reuters could not confirm or verify independently, features satellite imagery dated Aug 9 that shows two WZ-8 rocket-propelled reconnaissance drones at an air base in eastern China, about 350 miles (560km) inland from Shanghai, according to the newspaper. The U.S. assessment said China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) had "almost certainly" established its first unmanned aerial vehicle unit at the base, which falls under the Eastern Theater Command, the branch of the Chinese military responsible for enforcing Chinese sovereignty claims over Taiwan, the newspaper reported. ... Traveling at that speed would probably also require a special camera that could...

 Red States: On Monday, the Department of Justice held a press conference to announce major developments in three cases involving Chinese espionage in the U.S. Breon Peace, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, along with other DOJ officials, conducted the 35-minute conference, laying out the details of two criminal complaints which charge 44 defendants with crimes involving the harassment of Chinese nationals in the U.S., and another criminal complaint charging two defendants — “Harry” Lu Jianwang, 61, of the Bronx, and Chen Jinping, 59, of Manhattan — in connection with the operation of an illegal police station in lower Manhattan. ... There is much more detail on the alleged operations.  It looks like a very brazen espionage scheme in New York.