According to a top-secret intelligence assessment from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, China’s intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), “has taken specific actions to target Canadian MPs” who are linked to the February, 2021, parliamentary motion condemning Beijing’s oppression of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities. The motion, which passed, declared China’s conduct to...
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Chinese Police Station in New York Is Part of a Vast Influence Operation
This week the Justice Department arrested two Americans for operating a secret Chinese police station in New York City and separately charged 44 Chinese officials with enforcing Chinese laws on U.S. soil. These actions spotlight a tiny piece of the network Beijing uses to exert influence inside the United States. Tackling this complex issue will...
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U.S. Developed Method to Track Balloons Within the Last Year, Sources Say
The new method is important because the balloons are extremely difficult to track without it – they are slow-moving and can fly extremely high, in some cases as high as much as 60 miles up, and can evade the more traditional radars that are oriented toward detecting fast-moving missiles and counterterrorism threats, a lawmaker familiar...
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U.S. Intelligence Reported on Chinese Balloon Over Florida in 2019
The April 2022 report, titled “People’s Republic of China High-Altitude Balloon,” found a Chinese spy balloon “circumnavigated the globe” in 2019 – while Donald Trump was president – at an altitude of roughly 65,000 feet, and “drifted past Hawaii and across Florida ” The Air Force intelligence report is the first indication that the U.S....
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The Five Eyes: A New History Illuminates the West’s Global Surveillance Apparatus
From “Friends With Benefits,” by Tom Stevenson, London Review of Books, 19 January 2023