US magazine Newsweek reported on Tuesday last week that the Norwegian government’s latest annual report on security challenges has also said that Chinese intelligence networks operate all over Europe and pose a security threat to the continent.
This was following warnings from Germany, the UK and several other countries about Chinese espionage activities.
Norway’s intelligence agency said that Chinese agents conceal their activities through a range of “commonly available tools and digital infrastructure.”
They do not carry out their tasks alone, but are assisted by “diplomats, travel delegations, private individuals, businesses and special interest groups,” it said.
Article 7 of People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) National Intelligence Law stipulates that “all organizations and citizens shall support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence efforts in accordance with law.”
In practice, Chinese businesses and the public are not only required to help the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) conduct its intelligence work “in accordance with law.” They might even have to serve as the party’s lackeys for threatening Chinese dissidents in other countries.
A person going by the name of Ning Ning (甯甯), who is from China and is now a postdoctoral fellow at a US research institution, posted a petition in support of Chinese dissident Peng Lifa (彭立發) on US-based Web site Change.org.
It did not take China’s cyber police very long to track down and contact Ning Ning’s family.
As Ning Ning told Radio Free Asia: “Some of my personal information on this American Web site, such as my e-mail address, should not be visible to anyone, but somehow the CCP’s cyber police found it and went to visit my family.”
Ning Ning said that China’s cyber police might have broken into Change.org’s backend, or that the US company might have CCP collaborators working inside it.
China’s cyber police hack into other countries’ governments and companies, while Chinese spies and fellow travelers carry out “silent invasions” by infiltrating other countries at all levels.
Voice of America’s Chinese section on Tuesday last week said that a report published by US-based cybersecurity firm Trellix that day showed that Taiwan received what researchers described as a “significant spike” in malicious activity during the 24 hours leading up to the presidential and legislative elections.
This was more than twice the usual level.
The damage done to the nation’s national defense and social stability by pro-China elements based in Taiwan has attracted the attention of the international community.
International media have classified the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party as “pro-China,” which is indeed a fair assessment.
The PRC uses its counterespionage and national security laws to suppress its citizens’ freedom of speech.
It targets managers of foreign-invested companies in China with arbitrary searches and arrests.
It forces Chinese-invested companies and individual citizens overseas to act as lackeys.
It also finds ways to coerce or persuade other countries’ citizens to betray their homelands.
The CCP regime behaves like a beast on a rampage.
The prospect of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) regime falling from power overnight is not just possible, but probable.
Yu Kung is an entrepreneur.
Translated by Julian Clegg
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