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Statement from National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-national-security-advisor-robert-c-obrien-011521-2/ ^ | January 15, 2021 | Robert C. O’Brien

Posted on 01/18/2021 7:25:59 PM PST by Lera

Today, President Donald J. Trump directed departments and agencies to review applicable laws, regulations, and policies and to propose regulatory and policy changes, including potential executive actions, to minimize the procurement of People’s Republic of China (PRC) goods and services by the Federal Government.

The PRC 2017 National Intelligence Law obligates individuals, organizations, and institutions to assist the PRC security and intelligence services in carrying out a wide variety of intelligence work. PRC-based organizations and PRC citizens must also protect the secrecy of all state intelligence work of which they are aware. The PRC government, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, remains free to coerce and coopt PRC manufacturers and services providers to target the United States Government for espionage and information advantage. Some of this activity could further the goals of the PRC’s Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) strategy, which calls for all Chinese civil institutions, both public and private, to aid in advancing the capabilities of the PRC military through the acquisition and application of critical and emerging technologies.

As the Director of National Intelligence recently reported, the PRC poses the single greatest national security threat to America today. Beijing sees the United States as the main impediment to achieving its regional and global ambitions and consequentially invests significant resources in MCF and other strategies to gain relative advantage. The PRC targets the information systems of the United States Government for personnel records, military plans, and other exploitable data through cyber and other means. For this reason, the United States must take corresponding actions to protect American interests. We must adjust our regulations and policies and take other necessary actions to reduce the risk of PRC technical and human espionage activities directed at the Federal Government. Today, President Trump took another step to do just that. WhiteHouse.gov


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nationalsecurity

1 posted on 01/18/2021 7:25:59 PM PST by Lera
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To: Lera

Ominous.


2 posted on 01/18/2021 7:31:05 PM PST by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! So ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! /s 👹.)
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To: romanesq

It’s coming......The end of communism in America.


3 posted on 01/18/2021 7:35:10 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Lera

Very interesting...


4 posted on 01/18/2021 7:36:11 PM PST by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO )
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To: Lera

For many months, the USA has been removing Chinese spies...

Anyone been keeping track of how many? It’s quite a few. Generally, all connected to the national University System. Commie schools...


5 posted on 01/18/2021 7:38:17 PM PST by Professional ( )
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To: Lera
As the Director of National Intelligence recently reported,
the PRC poses the single greatest national security threat
to America today.

After Chairman Sleepy Jao and Vice Chairman Kamao
spHarris that is.

6 posted on 01/18/2021 7:38:26 PM PST by DoughtyOne (2021: Notice the Communists have lists of things to do. 2016: Notice Mitch and Paul didn't.)
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To: romanesq

This is bureaucratic double-talk—would take years to implement.

I used to work for .gov—we used to throw stuff like this in the trash—figured the bosses would forget about it in six months...and they almost always did...and a year later the managers gave you a blank stare if you asked “whatever happened to...”


7 posted on 01/18/2021 7:53:33 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: doc maverick

Yeah, ol’ Joe McCarthy thought similarly, and domestic commies foiled his efforts; mainly through the press and Hollywood lampooning at every opportunity the idea that there were any actual communists among us.

Expect more of the same.

Just Web 2.0 enabled this time.


8 posted on 01/18/2021 8:02:56 PM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: HKMk23

Except McCarthy was actually to conservative in how many communists there actually where in Tinseltown


9 posted on 01/18/2021 8:07:05 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: Lera

That’s nice. Biden will reverse it Thursday and the courts will instantly back him up, including Amy Conehead Barrett.

What he needs to be doing is declassifying the living hell out of everything and pardoning everyone in sight, starting with Snowden, Assange and Couy Griffin the Cowboys for Trump man.


10 posted on 01/18/2021 8:08:52 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Lod881019

Exactly. Let us not be guilty of the same miscalculation.


11 posted on 01/18/2021 8:12:28 PM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: HKMk23

So many people in DC are bought off by the Chinese it’s been that way since the 80s we only gave the biggest human rights violator on the planet favored nation status


12 posted on 01/18/2021 8:43:30 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: doc maverick

Yes it is coming.


13 posted on 01/18/2021 9:45:02 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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