{"id":1542664,"date":"2022-07-07T08:50:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542664"},"modified":"2022-07-07T08:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:50:43","slug":"fbi-and-mi5-warn-business-leaders-chinese-espionage-sweeping-across-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-and-mi5-warn-business-leaders-chinese-espionage-sweeping-across-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI And MI5 Warn Business Leaders: Chinese Espionage Sweeping Across The West"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ffbi-and-mi5-warn-business-leaders-chinese-espionage-sweeping-across-the-west%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=1542664&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--><p>Heads of the FBI and the MI5, the United Kingdom-equivalent, joined together on Wednesday to warn business leaders of espionage from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) subverting the Western economy and national security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray and MI5 Director General Ken McCallum alarmed world-leading technology, research, and commercial business owners about the Chinese government\u2019s long-term threat to Western investments\u2019 economic and national security. They emphasized, however, that the Chinese people \u2014 at home and abroad \u2014 are victims of the Chinese government themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll start with what this danger looks like,\u201d Wray <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/speeches\/directors-remarks-to-business-leaders-in-london-070622\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe Chinese government is set on stealing your technology\u2014whatever it is that makes your industry tick\u2014and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they\u2019re set on using every tool at their disposal to do it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>McCallum echoed the statement, calling on leaders to act while the CCP covertly applies pressure across the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy volume, most of what is at risk from Chinese Communist Party aggression is not, so to speak, my stuff,\u201d McCallum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mi5.gov.uk\/news\/speech-by-mi5-and-fbi\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s yours \u2014 and others like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wray said the CCP uses intelligence officers to target the private sector by using \u201cco-optees,\u201d that know intelligence operations, how to recruit sources, and steal secrets from businesses everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve even caught people affiliated with Chinese companies out in the U.S. heartland, sneaking into fields to dig up proprietary, genetically modified seeds, which would have cost them nearly a decade and billions in research to develop themselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wray said CCP operatives use cyber warfare, cheating, and stealing on a massive scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He noted last year Microsoft reported that Chinese government-backed hackers installed more than 10,000 backdoors on U.S. networks, allowing them to access data.<\/p>\n<p>Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington, denied the \u201cgroundless\u201d allegations from MI5 and the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-technology-china-beijing-london-4887e9d66e1b016187e4bad88ddb2de0\">to the Associated Press<\/a>,\u00a0adding that China \u201cfirmly opposes and combats all forms of cyber attacks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will never encourage, support, or condone cyber attacks,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the FBI and MI5 leaders say otherwise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FBI director said the Chinese government steals valuable technology from American businesses right through the front door. MI5\u2019s General McCallum added that CCP operatives \u201cslowly\u201d cultivate friendships only to obtain commercially unavailable information and use it to promote national interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aim of these tactics is to create a debt of obligation on the part of the target, who will eventually find it difficult to refuse inevitable requests for favors in return,\u201d McCallum said.<\/p>\n<p>Wray warned of conducting business with Chinese companies because the CCP owns them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you deal with a Chinese company, know you\u2019re also dealing with the Chinese government,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>McCallum and Wray shifted from the complex danger China poses to companies to forecasting \u201cthe most horrific business disruptions the world has ever seen\u201d if China forcibly took over Taiwan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen China looking for ways to insulate their economy against potential sanctions, trying to cushion themselves from harm if they do anything to draw the ire of the international community,\u201d Wray said. \u201cIn our world, we call that kind of behavior a clue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and its effect on Western investments \u2014 which have built over the years in both countries \u2014 between sanctions and Chinese law forbidding compliance, businesses could see the same impact but on a much larger scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not just geopolitics,\u201d said Wray. \u201cIt\u2019s business forecasting . . . but while the threat is immense, that doesn\u2019t mean harm is inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden in May signaled that the U.S Military would respond if China invaded Taiwan, though the White House quickly clarified the president\u2019s remarks by saying U.S. policy toward Taiwan has not changed.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-technology-china-beijing-london-4887e9d66e1b016187e4bad88ddb2de0\">reported<\/a>\u00a0a Chinese embassy spokesman said the Taiwan issue was \u201cpurely China\u2019s internal affair\u201d with \u201cno room for compromise or concession\u201d regarding questions of China\u2019s territory and sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will strive for the prospect of peaceful reunification with utmost sincerity and efforts,\u201d the statement said. It noted, however, that China will \u201creserve the option of taking all necessary measures in response to the interference of foreign forces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads of the FBI and the MI5, the United Kingdom-equivalent, joined together on Wednesday to warn business leaders of espionage from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) subverting the Western economy and national security.\u00a0 FBI Director Christopher Wray and MI5 Director General Ken McCallum alarmed world-leading technology, research, and commercial business owners about the Chinese government\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1546962,"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-1542664","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\/1542664","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1546962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}