Researcher Under FBI Investigation for Allegedly Hiding Ties to CCP

Researcher Under FBI Investigation for Allegedly Hiding Ties to China
Laboratory technicians test amples of blood from chickens for bird flu at an animal hospital in Beijing, China, on Feb. 6, 2004. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

A Chinese researcher who once worked at The Jackson Laboratory is under FBI investigation, for allegedly failing to disclose his financial ties to China in applications for U.S. government funding.

Ruan Yijun, a geneticist, failed to disclose his participation in a Chinese state-sponsored recruitment program called the Thousand Talents program and his collaboration agreement with China’s state-run Shenzhen People’s Hospital, according to an FBI affidavit unsealed on Mar. 2. The affidavit was filed in federal court in Bangor, Maine, on Dec. 30 last year.

Full Story: https://www.ntd.com/researcher-under-fbi-investigation-for-allegedly-hiding-ties-to-china_576979.html

China’s CCP hackers exploits bug in Microsoft’s software to target U.S. organizations

AP) — China-based government hackers have exploited a bug in Microsoft’s email server software to target U.S. organizations, the company said Tuesday.

Microsoft said that a “highly skilled and sophisticated” state-sponsored group operating from China has been trying to steal information from a number of American targets, including universities, defense contractors, law firms and infectious-disease researchers.

Microsoft said it has released security upgrades to fix the vulnerabilities to its Exchange Server software, which is used for work email and calendar services, mostly for larger organizations that have their own in-person email servers. It doesn’t affect personal email accounts or Microsoft’s cloud-based services.

Full Story: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210303/p2g/00m/0bu/041000c

Chinese Transplant Doctor Commits Suicide + More Examples Of CCP Human Rights Abuses..

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A famous Chinese transplant surgeon’s death raises suspicions. It’s been ruled a suicide, but some are pointing to the Chinese regime’s practice of forced organ harvesting.

China’s most important annual political meetings are scheduled for later this week. But authorities there seem to be ramping up suppression of activists and justice-seekers ahead of the event.

A pandemic-control volunteer in China is asked to quarantine. But his stay quickly took an unexpected turn when he witnessed people there being driven insane by the facility’s poor conditions.

Watch here: https://www.ntd.com/china-in-focus-march-1-chinese-transplant-doctor-commits-suicide_574728.html

 

China’s CCP counters Uighur criticism with explicit attacks on women witnesses…

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin holds pictures while speaking during a news conference in Beijing, China February 23, 2021, in this still image taken from video. Reuters TV via REUTERS

As allegations of human rights violations in Xinjiang mount, with a growing number of Western lawmakers accusing China of genocide, Beijing is focusing on discrediting the female Uighur witnesses behind recent reports of abuse.

Chinese officials have named women, disclosed what they say is private medical data and information on the women’s fertility, and accused some of having affairs and one of having a sexually transmitted disease. The officials said the information was evidence of bad character, invalidating the women’s accounts of abuse in Xinjiang.

Full Story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang/china-counters-uighur-criticism-with-explicit-attacks

Chinese Businessman Indicted For Stealing American Trade Secrets…

A Chinese businessman was indicted for conspiring to steal trade secrets from General Electric worth millions of dollars.

The individual, 64-year-old Chi Lung Winsman Ng who resides in Hong Kong, conspired to steal secrets relating to the company’s silicon carbide MOSFET technology.

“As alleged in the indictment, Winsman Ng conspired to steal trade secrets from General Electric to start a competitor,” said Attorney for the United States, Elizabeth C. Coombe.

“Mr. Ng conspired to steal valuable and sensitive technology from GE and produce it in China,” Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Thomas F. Relford added.

Full Story: https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/businessman-indicted-for-stealing-trade-secrets/

To Silence Overseas Teenager, CCP Detains, Assaults Parents in China…

Wang Jingyu. (Provided to The Epoch Times by Wang Jingyu)
Wang Jingyu. (Provided to The Epoch Times by Wang Jingyu)

Nineteen-year-old Wang Jingyu was summoned back to China from overseas on Feb. 21 after he criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for underreporting Chinese deaths during the June 2020 China-India border clash.

Beijing authorities have since detained his parents, who live in southwestern China’s Chongqing, raided their house, dismissed them from their state-run company positions, and assaulted them, in an attempt to force Wang to stop talking to overseas media and go back to China.

On Feb. 27, Wang told The Epoch Times that he couldn’t reach his parents by phone and was threatened by police from Chongqing that they would do worse to his parents if he doesn’t go back.

Full Story: https://www.theepochtimes.com/to-silence-19-year-old-man-overseas-ccp-tortures-parents-

Major Chinese study reveals CCP’s goal to ‘reduce Uighur population density’ and assimilate minority culture

<p>File image: A gate of what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre is photographed in Dabancheng, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China</p>
File image: A gate of what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre is photographed in Dabancheng, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China (Reuters)

A major Chinese study has revealed Beijing’s goals to ‘reduce Uighur population density’ and assimilate minority culture by giving news jobs – often far from home – to thousands of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.

Full Story: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-study-uighur-density-assimilate-minority-b1811319.html

China makes anal COVID-19 swabs mandatory for all foreign travelers…

China Shanghai Pudong Airport Photograph by Songquan Deng

China has made anal COVID-19 swabs mandatory for all foreign travelers arriving in the country, a report said Wednesday.

The government has claimed that such tests provides a higher degree of accuracy than other screening methods for the virus, the Times UK reported.

As part of the new travel requirement, there will be testing hubs in Beijing and Shanghai airports, the outlet reported.

Li Tongzeng, a respiratory disease medic, said that the anal swabs are better because virus traces stay longer in fecal samples than they do in the nose or throat, state media reported.

Full Story: https://nypost.com/2021/03/03/china-makes-covid-19-anal-swabs-mandatory-for-foreigners/

China – CCP State Media accuses Australia of being part of an “axis of white ­supremacy”

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China has accused Australia of being part of an “axis of white ­supremacy” because of our intelligence alliance with Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

In its state-run media mouthpiece – the Global Times – Beijing said the alliance, known as Five Eyes, was taking coordinated action against China.

“They have formed a US-centred, racist, and mafia-styled community, wilfully and arrogantly provoking China and trying to consolidate their hegemony as all gangsters do,” the tabloid wrote.

Full Story: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/five-eyes-china-accuses-australia

Pressure Mounts on US to Boycott 2022 Beijing China Olympics…

People wear protective masks as they walk front the logos of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at Yanqing Ice Festival on Feb. 26, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
People wear protective masks as they walk front the logos of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at Yanqing Ice Festival on Feb. 26, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

With less than a year until the Winter Olympics in Beijing, calls are mounting from around the globe for countries to boycott the Games over the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing abuse of human rights.

In the United States, Republican lawmakers have called for the Games to be moved out of Beijing, or failing that, a boycott of the event. They point to the Chinese regime’s sweeping campaign of repression against ethnic minorities, religious believers, and dissidents, with particular emphasis on its atrocities against Uyghur Muslims in the autonomous region of Xinjiang that the Trump administration declared a genocide.

Full Story: https://www.theepochtimes.com/pressure-piles-on-us-to-boycott-2022-beijing-olympics

Chinese CCP Hackers Using Firefox Extension to Spy On Tibetan Organizations…

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Cybersecurity researchers today unwrapped a new campaign aimed at spying on vulnerable Tibetan communities globally by deploying a malicious Firefox extension on target systems.

“Threat actors aligned with the Chinese Communist Party’s state interests delivered a customized malicious Mozilla Firefox browser extension that facilitated access and control of users’ Gmail accounts,” Proofpoint said in an analysis.

Full Story: https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/chinese-hackers-using-firefox-extension.html

The Western world is ‘de-industrializing itself’ against a ‘big threat’ like China…[VIDEO]

16 Pictures that Put China's Pollution into Perspective

Sky News host Peta Credlin says “this isn’t about climate change anymore” after a new report found China is currently constructing dozens of coal-fired power stations and has more than a hundred in the pre-construction phase. New figures released by the Institute of Public Affairs found China emits more carbon every 16 days than Australia does in an entire year.

Watch Here: https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6234859421001

Chinese Hackers Target Indian Vaccine Makers…

A medical worker prepares to inoculate a patient with a COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in Chennai, India, on March 1, 2021. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images)
A medical worker prepares to inoculate a patient with a COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in Chennai, India, on March 1, 2021. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images)

NEW DELHI—A Chinese state-backed hacking group has in recent weeks targeted the IT systems of two Indian vaccine makers whose coronavirus shots are being used in the country’s immunization campaign, cyber intelligence firm Cyfirma told Reuters.

Rivals China and India have both sold or gifted COVID-19 shots to many countries. India produces more than 60 percent of all vaccines sold in the world.

Full Story: https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-hackers-target-indian-vaccine-makers

European countries start to refuse CCP state enterprises from participating in their economies, [VIDEO]

In recent years, Europe has been showing signs of frustration of the CCP’s aggressive geopolitical posture. Some European countries have begun to refuse Chinese state enterprises from participating in their economies as the United States is deepening its cooperation with European allies to counter the CCP.

 

China Begins Military Exercises in South China Sea

China Begins Month of Military Exercises in South China Sea
A Chinese naval Z-9 helicopter prepares to land aboard a Chinese naval frigate as the ship conducts a series of maneuvers and exchanges with a US destroyer in the South China Sea, in a file photo.

China launched a month of military exercises in the South China Sea on Monday and accused foreign countries of heightening tensions by increasing their military presence in those contested waters.

On Friday, China’s Maritime Safety Administration announced that an area of roughly 80 square kilometers in Chinese waters to the west of Guangzhou’s Leizhou Peninsula and north of Hainan Island would be closed for military exercises between March 1 and March 31.

These exercises come in the wake of numerous foreign military maneuvers in contested areas of the South China Sea, which appear to have drawn Beijing’s ire.

Full Story: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/exercises-03012021171429.html

Canada votes to recognize China’s CCP treatment of Uighur population as genocide…

Umer Jan attends a rally on 19 February outside the Canadian embassy to encourage Canada in labeling China’s treatment of its Uighur population as genocide.

Canada has become the second country in the world to describe China’s treatment of its Uighur minority as a genocide, following a contentious parliamentary vote which is likely to further raise diplomatic tensions between the two nations.

Lawmakers approved the non-binding motion, brought forward by opposition Conservatives, to recognize China’s actions in the north-western Xinjiang province as a genocide against Muslim Uighurs.

Prime minister Justin Trudeau and senior members of cabinet did not attend the vote on Monday. All other Liberal members present voted in favour of the motion, except the foreign affairs minister, Marc Garneau, who abstained on behalf of the government.

Full Story: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/22/canada-china-uighur-muslims-genocide

China’s CCP theft of genomic data leaves high-profile targets vulnerable to blackmail, surveillance & extortion: NCSC

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While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) already leverages health data to power its Orwellian surveillance state at home, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is looking to America’s ethnically-diverse health data to feed its algorithms to bolster its economic and geopolitical clout abroad.

“The PRC has for years been able to gain access to US healthcare data, including genomic data, through a variety of channels, both legal and illegal” — National Counterintelligence and Security Center

There are many ways in which the Chinese Communist Party “acquires” health data on the American people, including straight-up theft and the more dubious backdoor approach of infiltrating American universities, research labs, businesses, and hospitals through strategic partnerships and negotiations.

Full Story: https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/china-covets-

China – CCP spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking..

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WASHINGTON—Chinese spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said on Feb. 22, in another indication of how malicious software developed by governments can boomerang against their creators.

Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software Technologies issued a report noting that some features in a piece of China-linked malware it dubs “Jian” were so similar they could only have been stolen from some of the National Security Agency break-in tools leaked to the internet in 2017.

Yaniv Balmas, Checkpoint’s head of research, called Jian “kind of a copycat, a Chinese replica.”

Full Story: https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-spyware-code-was-copied