Chinese Communist Party Threat Is ‘Massive’
Chinese Communist Party Threat Is ‘Massive’
Sounds like another build up to me.
Chinese Communist Party Threat Is ‘Massive’: FBI and MI5 Directors
By Andrew Thornebrooke
July 6, 2022 Updated: July 7, 2022
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Leaders from the British and American domestic intelligence agencies delivered a rare joint statement on July 6, warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest threat to the international order.
“The most game-changing challenge we face comes from the Chinese Communist Party,” said MI5 Director General Ken McCallum.
“It’s covertly applying pressure across the globe. This might feel abstract. But it’s real and it’s pressing. We need to talk about it. We need to act.”
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Chinese Communist Party Threat Is ‘Massive’: FBI and MI5 Directors
By Andrew Thornebrooke
July 6, 2022 Updated: July 7, 2022
Friends Read FreeFacebookTwee
Leaders from the British and American domestic intelligence agencies delivered a rare joint statement on July 6, warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest threat to the international order.
“The most game-changing challenge we face comes from the Chinese Communist Party,” said MI5 Director General Ken McCallum.
“It’s covertly applying pressure across the globe. This might feel abstract. But it’s real and it’s pressing. We need to talk about it. We need to act.”
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Hmmm, it's now asking me to register.
Plenty of other link around.
Here's my personal favourite. The BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-62064506
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Chinese Communist Party Threat Is ‘Massive’: FBI and MI5 Directors
By Andrew Thornebrooke
July 6, 2022 Updated: July 7, 2022
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Leaders from the British and American domestic intelligence agencies delivered a rare joint statement on July 6, warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest threat to the international order.
“The most game-changing challenge we face comes from the Chinese Communist Party,” said MI5 Director General Ken McCallum.
“It’s covertly applying pressure across the globe. This might feel abstract. But it’s real and it’s pressing. We need to talk about it. We need to act.”
McCallum described the CCP’s aggression as a “massive shared challenge” between the UK and the United States. He said that the communist regime is organizing the whole of China’s state apparatus to systematically undermine the West and steal advanced technologies.
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum gives his annual threat update at MI5 headquarters in Thames House, London, on July 14, 2021. (Yui Mok/PA)
“The CCP adopts a whole-of-state approach in which businesses and individuals are forced by law to cooperate with the Party,” McCallum said.
“In our free societies, we can do better. By building trusted partnerships across our national systems and, as symbolized today, internationally.”
CCP Is the ‘Biggest Long-Term Threat’
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the CCP is the greatest challenge to the international order, which seeks to undermine the United States, its allies, and partners.
“We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses the biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security, and by ‘our,’ I mean both of our nations, along with our allies in Europe and elsewhere,” he said.
McCallum said the purpose of the statement was not to demonize the Chinese people nor cut off China’s businesses from the rest of the world, but designed to specifically address the many threats posed by the CCP. These included covert theft, forced technology transfers, research exploitation, and cyberattacks that targeted virtually every sector of society, he added.
“The scale of ambition is huge,” McCallum said. “And it’s not really a secret. Any number of public strategic plans, such as Made in China 2025, show the intent plainly.”
“[They are] Seeking to bend our economy, our society, our attitudes to suit the Chinese Communist Party’s interests. To set standards and norms that would enable it to dominate the international order. This should make us sit up and notice.”
The UK government, like others throughout the world, has been the target of high-profile espionage campaigns by the CCP. Earlier this year, MI5 issued a warning that a Chinese spy had cultivated extensive ties throughout parliament, including through fundraising. Likewise, the UK also expelled several Chinese spies who posed as journalists.
The incidents served to underscore what McCallum presented as a harsh truth: that the West’s economic liberalism had failed to result in greater freedom and transparency in China.
“The widespread Western assumption that growing prosperity within China and increasing connectivity with the West would automatically lead to greater political freedom has, I’m afraid, been shown to be plain wrong,” McCallum said.
“But the Chinese Communist Party is interested in our democratic, media, and legal systems. Not to emulate them, sadly, but to use them for its gain.”
CCP Targets US Economy, Politics
Wray noted that CCP espionage targeted all sectors of the economy, from aviation to agriculture, and that the CCP was engaged in aggressive activities against U.S. infrastructure, such as a massive hack that compromised some 100,000 servers last year, which Microsoft alleged was carried out by hackers with backing from Beijing.
Microsoft China Hacking
People walk past a Microsoft office in New York on Nov. 10, 2016. (Swayne B. Hall/AP Photo File)
Wray also noted that the CCP appeared to be preparing its economy for increased decoupling from the West in a potential signal that it could be prepping an invasion of Taiwan.
“We’ve seen China looking for ways to insulate their economy against potential sanctions, trying to cushion themselves from harm if they do anything to draw the ire of the international behavior,” Wray said. “In our world, we call that kind of behavior a clue.”
As such, Wray encouraged business leaders to coordinate with the FBI and MI5 to protect themselves and to better prepare for the reality of increased CCP attempts to steal from, extort, and pressure businesses in the United States and the UK.
He said such a threat should not be underestimated, as the CCP had already attempted to directly interfere in U.S. elections by plotting against a Chinese-born candidate for Congress.
“The Chinese government is trying to shape the world by interfering in our politics, and those of our allies,” Wray said.
“The Chinese government went so far as directly interfering in a congressional election in New York, because they did not want the candidate—a Tiananmen Square protester and critic of the Chinese government—to be elected,” he added.
The statement referenced the case of Yan Xiong, a U.S. Army veteran who was targeted by the CCP last year. The incident was one of the numerous attempts by Beijing to stalk, intimidate, harass, or otherwise silence dissidents of the regime living in America.
Despite those threats, the Department of Justice terminated the Trump-era China Initiative, its sweeping counter-espionage campaign, in February. The department said that it received numerous complaints of racial profiling and, although an internal review found no evidence of such, it would end the program to avoid a “harmful perception of bias.”
Perhaps to avoid a similar outcome with ongoing FBI efforts, Wray underscored that the threat to the West was not those of Chinese origin, but the CCP itself.
“It is the Chinese government and the Chinese Community Party that pose the threat we’re focused on countering, not the Chinese people, and certainly not Chinese immigrants in our countries who are themselves frequently victims of the Chinese government’s lawless aggression,” he said.
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Chinese Communist Party Threat Is ‘Massive’: FBI and MI5 Directors
By Andrew Thornebrooke
July 6, 2022 Updated: July 7, 2022
biggersmaller Print
0:006:26
Leaders from the British and American domestic intelligence agencies delivered a rare joint statement on July 6, warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest threat to the international order.
“The most game-changing challenge we face comes from the Chinese Communist Party,” said MI5 Director General Ken McCallum.
“It’s covertly applying pressure across the globe. This might feel abstract. But it’s real and it’s pressing. We need to talk about it. We need to act.”
McCallum described the CCP’s aggression as a “massive shared challenge” between the UK and the United States. He said that the communist regime is organizing the whole of China’s state apparatus to systematically undermine the West and steal advanced technologies.
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum gives his annual threat update at MI5 headquarters in Thames House, London, on July 14, 2021. (Yui Mok/PA)
“The CCP adopts a whole-of-state approach in which businesses and individuals are forced by law to cooperate with the Party,” McCallum said.
“In our free societies, we can do better. By building trusted partnerships across our national systems and, as symbolized today, internationally.”
CCP Is the ‘Biggest Long-Term Threat’
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the CCP is the greatest challenge to the international order, which seeks to undermine the United States, its allies, and partners.
“We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses the biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security, and by ‘our,’ I mean both of our nations, along with our allies in Europe and elsewhere,” he said.
McCallum said the purpose of the statement was not to demonize the Chinese people nor cut off China’s businesses from the rest of the world, but designed to specifically address the many threats posed by the CCP. These included covert theft, forced technology transfers, research exploitation, and cyberattacks that targeted virtually every sector of society, he added.
“The scale of ambition is huge,” McCallum said. “And it’s not really a secret. Any number of public strategic plans, such as Made in China 2025, show the intent plainly.”
“[They are] Seeking to bend our economy, our society, our attitudes to suit the Chinese Communist Party’s interests. To set standards and norms that would enable it to dominate the international order. This should make us sit up and notice.”
The UK government, like others throughout the world, has been the target of high-profile espionage campaigns by the CCP. Earlier this year, MI5 issued a warning that a Chinese spy had cultivated extensive ties throughout parliament, including through fundraising. Likewise, the UK also expelled several Chinese spies who posed as journalists.
The incidents served to underscore what McCallum presented as a harsh truth: that the West’s economic liberalism had failed to result in greater freedom and transparency in China.
“The widespread Western assumption that growing prosperity within China and increasing connectivity with the West would automatically lead to greater political freedom has, I’m afraid, been shown to be plain wrong,” McCallum said.
“But the Chinese Communist Party is interested in our democratic, media, and legal systems. Not to emulate them, sadly, but to use them for its gain.”
CCP Targets US Economy, Politics
Wray noted that CCP espionage targeted all sectors of the economy, from aviation to agriculture, and that the CCP was engaged in aggressive activities against U.S. infrastructure, such as a massive hack that compromised some 100,000 servers last year, which Microsoft alleged was carried out by hackers with backing from Beijing.
Microsoft China Hacking
People walk past a Microsoft office in New York on Nov. 10, 2016. (Swayne B. Hall/AP Photo File)
Wray also noted that the CCP appeared to be preparing its economy for increased decoupling from the West in a potential signal that it could be prepping an invasion of Taiwan.
“We’ve seen China looking for ways to insulate their economy against potential sanctions, trying to cushion themselves from harm if they do anything to draw the ire of the international behavior,” Wray said. “In our world, we call that kind of behavior a clue.”
As such, Wray encouraged business leaders to coordinate with the FBI and MI5 to protect themselves and to better prepare for the reality of increased CCP attempts to steal from, extort, and pressure businesses in the United States and the UK.
He said such a threat should not be underestimated, as the CCP had already attempted to directly interfere in U.S. elections by plotting against a Chinese-born candidate for Congress.
“The Chinese government is trying to shape the world by interfering in our politics, and those of our allies,” Wray said.
“The Chinese government went so far as directly interfering in a congressional election in New York, because they did not want the candidate—a Tiananmen Square protester and critic of the Chinese government—to be elected,” he added.
The statement referenced the case of Yan Xiong, a U.S. Army veteran who was targeted by the CCP last year. The incident was one of the numerous attempts by Beijing to stalk, intimidate, harass, or otherwise silence dissidents of the regime living in America.
Despite those threats, the Department of Justice terminated the Trump-era China Initiative, its sweeping counter-espionage campaign, in February. The department said that it received numerous complaints of racial profiling and, although an internal review found no evidence of such, it would end the program to avoid a “harmful perception of bias.”
Perhaps to avoid a similar outcome with ongoing FBI efforts, Wray underscored that the threat to the West was not those of Chinese origin, but the CCP itself.
“It is the Chinese government and the Chinese Community Party that pose the threat we’re focused on countering, not the Chinese people, and certainly not Chinese immigrants in our countries who are themselves frequently victims of the Chinese government’s lawless aggression,” he said.
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Chinese Communist Party Threat Is ‘Massive’: FBI and MI5 Directors
By Andrew Thornebrooke
July 6, 2022 Updated: July 7, 2022
biggersmaller Print
0:006:26
Leaders from the British and American domestic intelligence agencies delivered a rare joint statement on July 6, warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest threat to the international order.
“The most game-changing challenge we face comes from the Chinese Communist Party,” said MI5 Director General Ken McCallum.
“It’s covertly applying pressure across the globe. This might feel abstract. But it’s real and it’s pressing. We need to talk about it. We need to act.”
McCallum described the CCP’s aggression as a “massive shared challenge” between the UK and the United States. He said that the communist regime is organizing the whole of China’s state apparatus to systematically undermine the West and steal advanced technologies.
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum gives his annual threat update at MI5 headquarters in Thames House, London, on July 14, 2021. (Yui Mok/PA)
“The CCP adopts a whole-of-state approach in which businesses and individuals are forced by law to cooperate with the Party,” McCallum said.
“In our free societies, we can do better. By building trusted partnerships across our national systems and, as symbolized today, internationally.”
CCP Is the ‘Biggest Long-Term Threat’
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the CCP is the greatest challenge to the international order, which seeks to undermine the United States, its allies, and partners.
“We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses the biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security, and by ‘our,’ I mean both of our nations, along with our allies in Europe and elsewhere,” he said.
McCallum said the purpose of the statement was not to demonize the Chinese people nor cut off China’s businesses from the rest of the world, but designed to specifically address the many threats posed by the CCP. These included covert theft, forced technology transfers, research exploitation, and cyberattacks that targeted virtually every sector of society, he added.
“The scale of ambition is huge,” McCallum said. “And it’s not really a secret. Any number of public strategic plans, such as Made in China 2025, show the intent plainly.”
“[They are] Seeking to bend our economy, our society, our attitudes to suit the Chinese Communist Party’s interests. To set standards and norms that would enable it to dominate the international order. This should make us sit up and notice.”
The UK government, like others throughout the world, has been the target of high-profile espionage campaigns by the CCP. Earlier this year, MI5 issued a warning that a Chinese spy had cultivated extensive ties throughout parliament, including through fundraising. Likewise, the UK also expelled several Chinese spies who posed as journalists.
The incidents served to underscore what McCallum presented as a harsh truth: that the West’s economic liberalism had failed to result in greater freedom and transparency in China.
“The widespread Western assumption that growing prosperity within China and increasing connectivity with the West would automatically lead to greater political freedom has, I’m afraid, been shown to be plain wrong,” McCallum said.
“But the Chinese Communist Party is interested in our democratic, media, and legal systems. Not to emulate them, sadly, but to use them for its gain.”
CCP Targets US Economy, Politics
Wray noted that CCP espionage targeted all sectors of the economy, from aviation to agriculture, and that the CCP was engaged in aggressive activities against U.S. infrastructure, such as a massive hack that compromised some 100,000 servers last year, which Microsoft alleged was carried out by hackers with backing from Beijing.
Microsoft China Hacking
People walk past a Microsoft office in New York on Nov. 10, 2016. (Swayne B. Hall/AP Photo File)
Wray also noted that the CCP appeared to be preparing its economy for increased decoupling from the West in a potential signal that it could be prepping an invasion of Taiwan.
“We’ve seen China looking for ways to insulate their economy against potential sanctions, trying to cushion themselves from harm if they do anything to draw the ire of the international behavior,” Wray said. “In our world, we call that kind of behavior a clue.”
As such, Wray encouraged business leaders to coordinate with the FBI and MI5 to protect themselves and to better prepare for the reality of increased CCP attempts to steal from, extort, and pressure businesses in the United States and the UK.
He said such a threat should not be underestimated, as the CCP had already attempted to directly interfere in U.S. elections by plotting against a Chinese-born candidate for Congress.
“The Chinese government is trying to shape the world by interfering in our politics, and those of our allies,” Wray said.
“The Chinese government went so far as directly interfering in a congressional election in New York, because they did not want the candidate—a Tiananmen Square protester and critic of the Chinese government—to be elected,” he added.
The statement referenced the case of Yan Xiong, a U.S. Army veteran who was targeted by the CCP last year. The incident was one of the numerous attempts by Beijing to stalk, intimidate, harass, or otherwise silence dissidents of the regime living in America.
Despite those threats, the Department of Justice terminated the Trump-era China Initiative, its sweeping counter-espionage campaign, in February. The department said that it received numerous complaints of racial profiling and, although an internal review found no evidence of such, it would end the program to avoid a “harmful perception of bias.”
Perhaps to avoid a similar outcome with ongoing FBI efforts, Wray underscored that the threat to the West was not those of Chinese origin, but the CCP itself.
“It is the Chinese government and the Chinese Community Party that pose the threat we’re focused on countering, not the Chinese people, and certainly not Chinese immigrants in our countries who are themselves frequently victims of the Chinese government’s lawless aggression,” he said.
Hardly a reliable source of information even when you agree with what is being reported.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/tech ... -gong.html
Ahh, it's refreshing that the USA is still wobbling about communism. Boo hoo.
That and the war on drugs has cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
Hey you, it's not the 70's anymore man.
That and the war on drugs has cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
Hey you, it's not the 70's anymore man.
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pew, pew, pew, pew!
How many wars have China been involved in over the last 20-30 years? How many have the USA? Now tell me who is the most danger to the "international order"
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Life was so much better when Gaddafi , Saddam Hussein , Osama bin Laden etc were around . Remember many countries sought help from the USA, the USA should just ignore these requests for help and don't get involved just like China .
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I can see that if you're Chinese you might think this a good thing. Just so long as you're willing to promote social credits, imprisonment of millions of innocent people, black prisons for those wishing to claim their land rights, aggressive noises towards its neighbours, denial of any and all wrong doing, a one party system, and a president who looks like a cartoon character ...
But most others, possible outside Asia, but likely also within, think it would be the worse thing the world has seen since Atilla the Hun.
But most others, possible outside Asia, but likely also within, think it would be the worse thing the world has seen since Atilla the Hun.
I think you mean mainland Chinese. Small detail but you've just included around 50 million of Chinese descent due to your own ignorance.
Besides, you seem to have a real dislike for those nice Chinese. There's some smoking hot Chinese (mainland) chicks and they make some good stuff, but also a lot of crap granted but that's the wests fault for buying it. People like you. Stop buying shit JollyPee.
Besides, you seem to have a real dislike for those nice Chinese. There's some smoking hot Chinese (mainland) chicks and they make some good stuff, but also a lot of crap granted but that's the wests fault for buying it. People like you. Stop buying shit JollyPee.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
YaTingPom wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 1:09 pmI think you mean mainland Chinese. Small detail but you've just included around 50 million of Chinese descent due to your own ignorance.
Besides, you seem to have a real dislike for those nice Chinese. There's some smoking hot Chinese (mainland) chicks and they make some good stuff, but also a lot of crap granted but that's the wests fault for buying it. People like you. Stop buying shit JollyPee.
Sorry mate, but if they were born in Singapore, Malaysia, England etc then they aren't Chinese, they're Singaporean, Malaysian, or English. Whatever their dull xenophobic brains might think. Or yours now you bring it up.
That’s odd because I was literally talking (Zoom) with a guy 20 mins ago who was born in the UK and has Chinese (mainland) parents and he said “I’m British Chinese” (never English Chinese, which is funny) Same with Singaporean Chinese etc.JollyBee wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:28 pmYaTingPom wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 1:09 pmI think you mean mainland Chinese. Small detail but you've just included around 50 million of Chinese descent due to your own ignorance.
Besides, you seem to have a real dislike for those nice Chinese. There's some smoking hot Chinese (mainland) chicks and they make some good stuff, but also a lot of crap granted but that's the wests fault for buying it. People like you. Stop buying shit JollyPee.
Sorry mate, but if they were born in Singapore, Malaysia, England etc then they aren't Chinese, they're Singaporean, Malaysian, or English. Whatever their dull xenophobic brains might think. Or yours now you bring it up.
I’m part Chinese by the way. And Mongolian and Irish. And Latvian.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
There’s a difference between ethnicity and nationality. YTP was talking about Chinese descent, not nationality.JollyBee wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:28 pmSorry mate, but if they were born in Singapore, Malaysia, England etc then they aren't Chinese, they're Singaporean, Malaysian, or English. Whatever their dull xenophobic brains might think. Or yours now you bring it up.
A baby born to Chinese parents in England may have English nationality but the baby is still ethnically Chinese. The baby has British nationality and Chinese descent.
It is not xenophobic to understand and respect one’s ethnicity and culture. What’s xenophobic is to try and erase their whole family heritage only because they happened to be born in a foreign country. Chinese people born in England have every right to be proud of their Chinese descent.
Exactly. NOT Chinese. British-Chinese. Otherwise known as English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish. AND have taken on the cultural attributes of said countries through schooling, music, fashion etc. NOT Chinese appart from what their mothers have beaten into them. Which could be quite a lot admittedly. But rarely getting anywhere near as Chinese as someone brought up in China and expousing Xi as their glorious leader. i.e. Chinese. Which is obviously who I was talking about. Eventhough, I know all Chinese ( in China) are not saluting the flag and, so obviously I don't mean them. I dare to say there are quite a few Chinese ( in China ) who would gladly see the end of Xi and that sort of sudo communism.
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