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US Ramps Up Crackdown On China’s Spying Efforts During Coronavirus
Daily Caller ^ | April 07, 2020 | ANDERS HAGSTROM

Posted on 04/07/2020 4:53:37 PM PDT by BeauBo

The Department of Justice is escalating its efforts to cut off China’s espionage efforts in the United States even as the country grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.

Reports in recent years estimate the U.S. economy loses more than $600 billion annually to China’s intellectual property theft. U.S. authorities have prosecuted dozens of Chinese nationals and U.S. citizens assisting this theft in every industry from education to military space technology. Now, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers has called for all 94 of attorney’s districts in the country to make prosecuting these cases a priority, according to Politico.

“These cases take time, they sometimes involve classified evidence, which can complicate both the investigation and later the prosecution and how you charge the case,” Demer told Politico in an interview. “But we wanted to signal to the U.S. attorneys that we understood that, and nonetheless we wanted them to focus their resources on this and that we were going to approve these charges and we wanted them to move forward.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: espionage; trade
Driven from the top down - it a broad strategic push.
1 posted on 04/07/2020 4:53:37 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

It aint just china, but when things go crazy spies watch were they all run.


2 posted on 04/07/2020 4:55:59 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BeauBo

“...The Department of Justice is escalating its efforts to cut off China’s espionage efforts..)”

How about working on democrats espionage efforts?


3 posted on 04/07/2020 4:58:47 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BeauBo

One strategy is to spook them, to see who lights up.


4 posted on 04/07/2020 4:59:03 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BeauBo

One strategy is to spook them, to see who lights up.


5 posted on 04/07/2020 4:59:03 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Question here is “who scared who”?


6 posted on 04/07/2020 5:00:13 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Question here is “who scared who”?


7 posted on 04/07/2020 5:00:13 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BeauBo

20 years minimum + RICO confiscation of assets. (Ideally, I’d just skip the prison or RICO and go directly to feeding them to polar bears so they don’t starve, but that’s considered cruel and unusual).


8 posted on 04/07/2020 5:01:57 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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it is time for a real one china policy, a china ruled by taiwan. how the table turns for Taiwanese-Beijing


9 posted on 04/07/2020 5:08:32 PM PDT by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: BeauBo

Diane Feinstein should be talked to. I find it hard to believe she didn’t know her chauffer was a Chinese spy.


10 posted on 04/07/2020 5:09:47 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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To: BeauBo

If we still executed for treason, it might get the attention of the Americans selling us out.


11 posted on 04/07/2020 5:19:13 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Zhang Fei
(Ideally, I’d just skip the prison or RICO and go directly to feeding them to polar bears so they don’t starve, but that’s considered cruel and unusual).

For the polar bears.😷

12 posted on 04/07/2020 5:22:06 PM PDT by 6ppc (Democrats would have to climb Everest to reach the level of "scum of the earth")
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CHINA NETWORKING IN US——Joe and Hunter Biden musta helped China compile “The Friendly Governors’ list”..............

Secy of State Mike Pompeo Says He Has List; American Pols Named as ‘Friendly’ by Communist China
pjmedia.com ^ | 2/9/2020 | MEGAN FOX
In a shocking speech to the National Governors Association, Secretary Mike Pompeo revealed that he is in possession of a list of American governors who have been listed as “friendly” by Chinese Communist infiltrators.

Pompeo said he had received an earlier invitation from a former governor to attend a networking event that promised great “deal-making” opportunities with the Chinese government.

This networking event was run by “The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship in Foreign Countries,” said Pompeo.

But what the US participants might not have known is that “the group is the public face of the Chinese Communist party’s official foreign influence agency, the United Front Work Department.” Pompeo knew of this connection from his former position at the CIA.

He questioned the governors on how many of them knew that this group was a Communist-front group.

“What if you made a “new friend” at the China networking event?” he asked. “What if your ‘new friend’ offered to invest big money in your state, perhaps in your pension fund, or make a Chinese invest in an industry sensitive to our national security?”

And then Pompeo dropped a huge bomb on the crowd.

“These aren’t hypotheticals. Last year a Chinese government-backed think tank in Beijing produced a report that assessed all fifty of America’s governors on their attitudes toward China. They labeled each pol friendly, hardline, or ambiguous.”

Pompeo continued, “I’ll let you decide where you think you belong, someone in China already has. Many of you, indeed, in that report, are referenced by name.”
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13 posted on 04/07/2020 5:26:00 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: 6ppc

(Ideally, I’d just skip the prison or RICO and go directly to feeding them to polar bears so they don’t starve, but that’s considered cruel and unusual).

For the polar bears.😷

True. Might be the first time they've ever had Chinese.


14 posted on 04/07/2020 5:27:09 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: EvilCapitalist
I believe the "chauffer" characterization was a LIE invented by the media in an attempt to make us THINK the Chinese didn't do much DAMAGE in such a capacity..

The TRUTH is that this "chauffer" was ACTUALLY her OFFICE MANAGER where the damage to our national security was much more SIGNIFICANT.

15 posted on 04/07/2020 5:32:44 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Liz

China needs to be taught a lesson for all the C-19 problems they have caused across the Globe. They don’t own the planet, and C-19 is nothing short of an act of war.


16 posted on 04/07/2020 5:34:20 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (eWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEy5vIWCJLQ&feature=emb_logo


17 posted on 04/07/2020 6:00:03 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BeauBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9myHhpS9s


18 posted on 04/07/2020 6:04:18 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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