{"id":2026745,"date":"2023-09-09T12:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-nationals-boldly-attempted-to-infiltrate-us-national-security-sites-nearly-100-times-report\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T16:23:50","slug":"chinese-nationals-boldly-attempted-to-infiltrate-us-national-security-sites-nearly-100-times-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-nationals-boldly-attempted-to-infiltrate-us-national-security-sites-nearly-100-times-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese nationals made nearly 100 bold attempts to infiltrate US national security sites, says report."},"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\">30<\/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%2Fchinese-nationals-boldly-attempted-to-infiltrate-us-national-security-sites-nearly-100-times-report%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=2026745&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--><h2>Chinese Nationals Probe American\u2064 Military Bases, Sparking Espionage Concerns<\/h2>\n<p>A new report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/national-security\/chinese-gate-crashers-at-u-s-bases-spark-espionage-concerns-cdef8187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reveals \u2062that Chinese nationals have \u2062been accessing American military bases and other sensitive sites\u2064 up to 100 times\u200d in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Officials, who chose to\u2062 remain anonymous, have labeled these incidents \u2062as &#8220;a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boris-johnsons-woke-communications-chief-lobbied-for-chinas-huawei-report\/\" title=\"Boris Johnson's 'Woke' Communications Chief Lobbied for China\u2019s Huawei: Report\">potential espionage threat<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A joint agency group, including the Defense Department, \u200bFBI, and other agencies, \u2064conducted a review of these incidents and\u2064 identified a pattern.<\/p>\n<p>While the methods\u2062 of intrusion vary, from scuba divers near a Florida base \u2063to\u2064 trespassers on a New Mexico missile range, the common thread appears to\u200d be testing security measures.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c individuals involved in these intrusions are typically Chinese nationals who are coerced into carrying out \u200dthese\u200b actions and then reporting back to their government. They often use scripted \u2063language to explain their presence in rural areas with \u2062little\u200c to no \u2063tourism.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, many of these trespassers are deliberately detained and\u2064 subsequently deported. However, Chinese Embassy representative Liu Pengyu dismissed the report\u200d as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-nationals-boldly-attempted-to-infiltrate-us-national-security-sites-nearly-100-times-report\/\" title=\"Chinese nationals made nearly 100 bold attempts to infiltrate US national security sites, says report.\">purely ill-intentioned\u2062 fabrications<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The state-run Global Times also criticized the report, \u200breferring to\u2064 it as &#8220;hype&#8221; and &#8220;an insult to readers&#8217; intelligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado suggested that Congress may need to address\u200d this\u200b issue, as trespassing is not typically considered a federal crime.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Harding, a senior\u2064 fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, highlighted \u2064China&#8217;s advantage in being able to send a large \u200cnumber of people for intelligence \u2064collection, even if some of\u2064 them are\u200c caught.<\/p>\n<p>Access to these sites is sometimes gained by speeding through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-inaugural-like-baghdad-green-zone-red-zone-military-checkpoints-to-enter-and-leave-downtown-d-c-bridges-into-city-to-be-closed\/\" title=\"Biden Inaugural Like Baghdad: Green Zone, Red Zone, Military Checkpoints to Enter and Leave Downtown D.C., Bridges Into City to Be Closed\">security checkpoints<\/a>, according to Pentagon representative Sue \u200bGough.<\/p>\n<p>Incidents such as a vehicle packed with Chinese citizens driving \u2064through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tsa-can-now-fine-you-for-not-masking-up-following-biden-executive-order\/\" title=\"TSA Can Now Fine You For Not Masking Up Following Biden Executive Order\">security checkpoint<\/a> at Fort Wainwright in Alaska have raised concerns. In this particular case, a drone was discovered in \u2062the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Air Force general David Deptula suggested \u200cthat these intrusions could be a tactic to leave behind sensors that gather valuable information.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the report highlights \u200cthe ongoing challenge of protecting American national \u200bsecurity sites from potential espionage threats.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chinese-nationals-boldly-attempted-infiltrate-us-national-security-sites-nearly-100-times-report\/\">The Western \u2063Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese nationals are reportedly investigating US military bases, accessing them around 100 times in recent years. The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s unnamed sources referred to these incidents as &#8220;potential espionage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2026746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026745","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}