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Oh dear – FBI identifies China as biggest law enforcement threat
- Friday | 7th February, 2020
FBI counterintelligence chief John Brown said the bureau arrested 24 people last year in China-related cases and had already arrested 19 in 2020. US Attorney General William Barr told the conference China has emerged as the “top geo-political adversary” of the United States and highlighted the threat posed by Beijing’s pursuit of dominance in next-generation 5G telecommunications technology. They also caught and jailed former CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency officials on espionage charges linked to China. But US officials launched a broad effort to stop alleged Chinese espionage in the United States only in 2018. According to CSIS, of 137 publicly reported instances of Chinese-linked espionage against the United States since 2000, 73% took place in the last decade.
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