{"id":1214905,"date":"2022-01-13T18:04:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214905"},"modified":"2022-01-13T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:04:57","slug":"nastiest-surveillance-state-in-history-pompeo-warns-that-china-will-spy-on-olympic-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nastiest-surveillance-state-in-history-pompeo-warns-that-china-will-spy-on-olympic-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Nastiest Surveillance State in History&#039;: Pompeo Warns that China Will Spy on Olympic Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnastiest-surveillance-state-in-history-pompeo-warns-that-china-will-spy-on-olympic-athletes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214905&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Chinese-Communist-U.S.-Consulate-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is warning Olympic athletes to leave their computers and cellphones at home because Chinese authorities will spy on them and hack into their devices while they compete at the Summer Games in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo took to his Twitter account to deliver a warning about the \u201cnastiest surveillance state in history\u201d that the Chinese government has created.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOlympic athletes must understand the risk in Beijing. The CCP has built the nastiest surveillance state in history &amp; will monitor everything athletes say &amp; do. Our athletes should leave their phones &amp; laptops at home \u2013 like I &amp; my team did \u2013 &amp; like the Dutch have been told to do,\u201d Pompeo tweeted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Olympic athletes must understand the risk in Beijing. The CCP has built the nastiest surveillance state in history &amp; will monitor everything athletes say &amp; do. Our athletes should leave their phones &amp; laptops at home \u2013 like I &amp; my team did \u2013 &amp; like the Dutch have been told to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikepompeo\/status\/1481306408159256580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some athletes who have records as activists for various causes should be on high alert as they prepare to compete in the oppressive mass surveillance state.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>For instance, U.S. snowboard champion Shaun White should be on alert that he will be targeted immediately upon entering China. White recently posted a photo of himself holding a Tibetan independence flag.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sonamtso, former SFT Campaigns Director, had the opportunity to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shaunwhite?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@shaunwhite<\/a>. The first thing she told him is how much this flag means to her. In Tibet, if she walked up to an Olympic athlete with the Tibetan flag, she could be jailed indefinitely, tortured, and even killed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DGYtBHQdxZ\">pic.twitter.com\/DGYtBHQdxZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Students for a Free Tibet (@SFTHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFTHQ\/status\/1479888871387242500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The photo came as part of a campaign to highlight China\u2019s oppression of Tibet.<\/p>\n<p>Students for a Free Tibet gave copies of a letter asking for a meeting on China\u2019s human rights abuses to White and other aspiring Olympians at the final trials, including freestyle skier Hanna Faulhaber and freestyle skiing medalists David Wise and Brita Sigourney.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. figure skater Timothy LeDuc, who is set to compete in Beijing as the first non-binary Winter Olympics athlete, could easily be targeted after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/01\/11\/u-s-olympic-figure-skater-timothy-leduc-condemns-horrifying-human-rights-abuses-by-china\/\">accusing<\/a>&nbsp;China of \u201chorrifying human rights abuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For these criticisms, \u201ccrimes\u201d under Chinese law, Pompeo believes the communist country could target U.S. athletes.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is warning Olympic athletes to leave their computers and cellphones at home because Chinese authorities will spy on them and hack into their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}