A Pacific telecommunications giant recently acquired by Australia’s Telstra has been a conduit for spying activity, alleges a new report. Digicel Pacific was purchased last year with major backing from Australia’s federal government over fears a Chinese-backed entity could swoop in and take over the company while establishing a foothold for Beijing-backed surveillance activity. The $1.6 billion buyout was carried out amidst ongoing competition in the region between democratic allies and the Chinese Communist Party. A new report from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab reveals that “spies-for-hire” had leased or gained use of “global titles,” in an analysis released to the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/private-spies-tapped-pacific-telco-giants-network-5486242
Dozens of Republican House Energy and Commerce Committee members sought to review the licensing agreement between Ford Motor Co. and a Chinese electric vehicle battery maker. In a letter sent to Ford’s CEO James Farley, the Republicans, led by committee chair Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Oversight Subcommittee Chair Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), asked for a copy of the licensing agreement and all Ford’s communications on the deal’s eligibility for tax credits. The lawmakers were concerned that Ford’s deal with the Chinese EV battery maker “could aid China’s efforts to expand its control over United States electric vehicle supply chains and jeopardize national security by furthering dependence on China.” They wrote that such national security risks would become “serious” “at the time of escalating geopolitical tensions.”...
Chinese spies, disguised as tourists, have reportedly infiltrated American military bases as many as 100 times. Washington is on high alert, now sounding the alarm over potential espionage threats, as lawmakers raise grave concerns—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. How exactly does China spy on America? And what disguises do they use to conceal it? Topics in this episode: Chinese ‘Gate-Crashers’ Raise Espionage Concerns Mounting Espionage: How China Spies on the U.S. Raimondo: ‘China Erodes Trusts’ by Hacking Her Email Spy Tactics: Examining Chinese Intel Gathering Methods 932 CCP Members Revealed Inside Gotion Parent Company; Michigan Residents Concerned Over Battery Plant New COVID-19 Variant Appears in China; Country Sees Boosted COVID-19 Rates Kim Jong Un Expects Arms Talks with Putin ‘These Countries Know Totalitarianism’: Graceffo on How China Is Losing Eastern Europe to Taiwan ...
Kim Jong Un, the top leader of communist North Korea, expects to continue the discussion about a potential arms deal with the Kremlin, which may include a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Russia, according to intelligence obtained by the United States. Arms negotiations between North Korea and Russia “are actively advancing,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement to The Epoch Times. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu traveled to North Korea last month and sought to “convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition to Russia,” Ms. Watson noted. “We have information that Kim Jong-Un expects these discussions to continue, to include leader-level diplomatic engagement in Russia,” she said, without specifying when such a meeting would take place....