More on the CCP infiltration into America and other countries

 TruNews' discussion of CCP infiltration into America

This is an extract from yesterday's TruNews podcast

Robin Westenra · Tru News on the CCP’s infiltration into America

CCP’s infiltration into foreign 

medical companies

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G News,

I3 March, 2021

In December 2020, a list of nearly 2 million Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 

members in Shanghai was cast under the limelight. This leaked database became 

a hot topic with countless discussions on the internet. The database and 

equivalent CSV or excel files were available publicly online, which were then down

loaded by many curious netizens.

In the last two months, I published two articles to showcase my analytical findings, which focused on CCP’s infiltration into foreign banks and IT companies (you can 

find the links of both articles at the bottom).

In this third article of the series, I will showcase more results from my data 

analysis. This time we are looking at foreign companies in the Medical sector, 

including medical equipment manufacturers and drug developers.

As reported in the past articles, I have downloaded two excel files and then 

transfer them into the CSV files to be processed using Python programming. The 

first file contains 1,048,576 rows of data, and the second file contains 908,663 

rows of data. This aligned with the number of the CCP members on the database 

as reported by various news outlet.

I have found several ranking lists of the world’s largest medical companies. I used 

the top 10 or top 20 among these firms as the references when I searched in the 

database with keywords. If the company shown in the list is not mentioned in this 

article, it means that the author fails to find the company name on the CCP 

members’ data.

Firstly, let’s look at the summarized numbers of the CCP members based on 

companies:

Among all large medical companies found in the database, Siemens wins first 

place in terms of the number of CCP members hired, with nearly 700 CCP 

members. This figure is likely to be underestimated because we only focus on the head office and its medical sector in China. There are approximately 200 CCP

 members in the communication, switch, and automation sector of Siemens.

After Siemens, we have Roche from Switzerland, Johnson & Johnson, and 3M 

Company from the US. The number of CCP members employed by these 

companies are quite similar, ranging from 250 to 270.

The CCP virus vaccine producer, such as Pfizer and AstraZeneca, are also on 

the list. Both companies have a similar number of CCP members employed. Pfizer has 69 CCP members, while AstraZeneca has 54 CCP members. According to 

DEUTSCHE WELLE, both companies’ CCP virus vaccines were nominated as the world’s top 10 leading vaccine programs.

Now let’s look at the number of CCP branches：

In terms of the number of CCP branches, Philips is in second place after Siemens, with 9 CCP branches, three fewer than the number of CCP branches associated 

with Siemens. If we read the data carefully, we can find that the CCP branches 

in Philips are named by the series number of the building. For example, there are 2 CCP branches called Philips Building #1 and 4 CCP branches named Philips 

Building #2.

The vaccine provider Pfizer has 4 CCP branches, while AstraZeneca has only one

 CCP branch. 3M Company and Johnson & Johnson have more than 5 CCP 

branches, which is not surprising considering their numbers of CCP members.

An overall tabulation of my results is shown below. I welcome any comments or 

eedback on my analysis.

Note：

1. Data Resource：https://gitlab.com/wesliew/shanghai-ccp-member-db/-/tree/master/untrusted-blob-of-raw-data （It seems that this resource is no longer available now. You may search for other potential resource channels in 
2. Gitlab）
3. I use Python Pandas DataFrame for the data analysis，you may also apply 
4. SQL if you use the database (.db) version of this dataset.
5. You can find the first article “CCP members who work in (or infiltrated into) 
6. foreign banks” here: https://gnews.org/688601/
7. You can find the second article “CCP infiltrated into western information 
8. technology companies” here: https://gnews.org/760222/

Resource of the world well-known medical companies：

Sina Webpage 1 (media website in CCP controlled China)

Sina Webpage 2 (media website in CCP controlled China)

Sina Webpage 3 (media website in CCP controlled China)Deutsche Welle

Author：Gradient Boost

Editor: XO酱

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of GNEWS.org.

A MYSTERIOUS dark database hidden by China could be the smoking gun 

that proves Covid DID leak from a Wuhan lab, a study has claimed.

The Sun Online can reveal the closely guarded cache of information is believed to include unpublished samples of data on new viruses and hidden bat collection 

sties.

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Read the article HERE

This is from 10 months ago

From mid-December, 2020

Read article HERE

Chinese Spies Hijack NSA Hacking Tools To Use Against The US

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-spies-hijack-nsa-hacking-tools-use-against-us

Chinese spyware code was copied from America's NSA: researchers

Reuters,

22 February, 2021

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said on Monday, 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.”

The find comes as some experts argue that American spies should devote more energy to fixing the flaws they find in software instead of developing and deploying malicious software to exploit it.

The NSA declined comment. The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for comment.

A person familiar with the matter said Lockheed Martin Corp – which is credited as having identified the vulnerability exploited by Jian in 2017 – discovered it on the network of an unidentified third party.

In a statement, Lockheed said it “routinely evaluates third-party software and technologies to identify vulnerabilities.”

Countries around the world develop malware that breaks into their rivals’ devices by taking advantage of flaws in the software that runs them. Every time spies discover a new flaw they must decide whether to quietly exploit it or fix the issue to thwart rivals and rogues.

That dilemma came to public attention between 2016 and 2017, when a mysterious group calling itself the “Shadow Brokers” published some of the NSA’s most dangerous code to the internet, allowing cybercriminals and rival nations to add American-made digital break-in tools to their own arsenals.

How the Jian malware analyzed by Checkpoint was used is not clear. In an advisory published in 2017, Microsoft Corp suggested it was linked to a Chinese entity it dubs “Zirconium,” which last year was accused of targeting U.S. election-related organizations and individuals, including people associated with President Joe Biden’s campaign.

Checkpoint says Jian appears to have been crafted in 2014, at least two years before the Shadow Brokers made their public debut. That, in conjunction with research published in 2019 by Broadcom Inc-owned cybersecurity firm Symantec about a similar incident, suggests the NSA has repeatedly lost control of its own malware over the years.

Checkpoint’s research is thorough and “looks legit,” said Costin Raiu, a researcher with Moscow-based antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab, which has helped dissect some of the NSA’s malware.

Balmas said a possible takeaway from his company’s report was for spymasters weighing whether to keep software flaws secret to think twice about using a vulnerability for their own ends.

“Maybe it’s more important to patch this thing and save the world,” Balmas said. “It might be used against you.”

A summary of Wikileaks' Vault 7 leaks

 WIKILEAKS CIA FILES: THE 6 BIGGEST SPYING SECRETS REVEALED BY THE RELEASE OF 'VAULT 7'

WikiLeaks has released a huge set of files that it calls "Year Zero" and which mark the biggest exposure of CIA spying secrets ever. The massive set of documents – over 8,000 pages in all – include a host of hacking secrets that could embarrass intelligence agencies and the US government, as well as undermining spying efforts across the world. Here are six of the biggest secrets and pieces of information yet to emerge from the huge dump. 1) The CIA has the ability to break into Android and iPhone handsets, and all kinds of computers. The US intelligence agency has been involved in a concerted effort to write various kinds of malware to spy on just about every piece of electronic equipment that people use. That includes iPhones, Androids and computers running Windows, macOS and Linux. If that software is as powerful as WikiLeaks claims, it could be used to remotely control those devices and switch them on and off. Once that happened, a vast array of data would be made available – including users' locations, messages they had sent, and potentially everything heard by the microphone or seen by the camera. 2) Doing so would make apps like Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp entirely insecure.

Encrypted messaging apps are only as secure as the device they are used on – if an operating system is compromised, then the messages can be read before they encrypted and sent to the other user. WikiLeaks claims that has happened, potentially meaning that messages have been compromised even if all of the usual precautions had been taken. 3) The CIA could use smart TVs to listen in on conversations that happened around them

One of the most eye-catching programmes detailed in the documents is "Weeping Angel". That allows intelligence agencies to install special software that allows TVs to be turned into listening devices – so that even when they appear to be switched off, they're actually on. That's just one of the technologies created by the Embedded Devices Branch, the CIA division at the centre of much of the leaks of new information. 4) The agency explored hacking into cars and crashing them, allowing 'nearly undetectable assassinations'.

Many of the documents reference tools that appear to have dangerous and unknown uses. One file, for instance, shows that the CIA were looking into ways of remotely controlling cars and vans by hacking into them. "The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations," WikiLeaks notes, in an unproven piece of speculation. 5) The CIA hid vulnerabilities that could be used by hackers from other countries or governments.

WikiLeaks claims that its source handed over the documents in order to provoke a debate about the power of intelligence agencies and how their information should be exposed. Perhaps central to that is the accusation that the CIA was "hoarding" exploits that it had found – rather than handing them over to the companies that could fix them, and so make users safe, as they had promised to do. Such bugs were found in the biggest consumer electronics in the world, including phones and computers made Apple, Google and Microsoft. But those companies didn't get the chance to fix those exploits because the agency kept them secret in order to keep using them, the documents suggest. "Serious vulnerabilities not disclosed to the manufacturers places huge swathes of the population and critical infrastructure at risk to foreign intelligence or cyber criminals who independently discover or hear rumors of the vulnerability," a WikiLeaks statement read. "If the CIA can discover such vulnerabilities so can others." WikiLeaks noted that those unfixed exploits affected everyone using the equipment, including "the U.S. Cabinet, Congress, top CEOs, system administrators, security officers and engineers". 6) More information is coming… The documents have still not been looked through entirely. There are 8,378 pages of files, some of which have already been analysed but many of which hasn't. The files are being shared publicly on the WikiLeaks website and the organisation has encouraged its supporters to keep looking through the documents in the hope of finding more stories. And that's not to mention the other sets of documents that are coming. The "Year Zero" leaks are just the first in a series of "Vault 7" dumps, Julian Assange said. When taken together, those "Vault 7" leaks will make up the biggest intelligence publication in history, WikiLeaks claimed.

The Chinese spy raised money for Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA) and planted an “intern” in his congressional office.

 Tucker DESTROYS Eric Swalwell, from fartgate to Chinagate

Chinese spy raised money for Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell, planted “intern” in his Congressional office

The question is which one of our government officials is not compromised by the CCP?

(Article by Cristina Laila republished from TheGatewayPundit.com)

A Chinese spy raised money for Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA) and planted an “intern” in his congressional office.

A Chinese national named Fang Fang, AKA, Christine Fang targeted politicians in California between 2011 and 2015 at the direction of China’s internal spy agency and even had intimate relationships with two Midwestern mayors, according Axios.

According to Fang’s friends, she was in her late 20s or early 30s when she enrolled at a Bay Area university and began to target politicians and gather intelligence at the direction of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS).

Fang also targeted two Midwestern mayors — one older mayor from an “obscure city” actually referred to Fang as his “girlfriend” and insisted the relationship was genuine despite the huge age gap.

Christine Fang also had an intimate relationship with a mayor from Ohio that was under electronic FBI surveillance. Fang reportedly lured in the Ohio mayor by asking him to help her improve her English.

Fang abruptly departed the US in 2015 and the DOJ has not filed any public charges against her.

Via Axios:

Details: Fang’s earliest known engagement with Swalwell occurred through the Chinese Student Association. By 2014, she had risen in local political circles and developed close ties to Swalwell’s office.

• Fang “was a bundler” for Swalwell and other candidates, according to a Bay Area political operative with direct knowledge of her efforts. A current U.S. intelligence official confirmed her activity for Swalwell; a local elected official also said she brought in donors for other candidates. Bundlers persuade others to write checks for campaigns; they can bring in substantial sums of money as well as deepen the campaign’s engagement with target communities, making bundlers a valuable and thus potentially influential ally to a candidate.
• The Bay Area political operative who witnessed Fang fundraising on Swalwell’s behalf was concerned whether donors she brought in were legally permitted to donate. They found no evidence of illegal contributions.
• Fang facilitated the potential assignment of interns into Swalwell’s offices, the political operative said. In at least one case, an intern recommended by Fang was placed into Swalwell’s D.C. office, this person said. A current U.S. intelligence official confirmed the intern placement.

For Fang, targeting Swalwell made sense. His 2012 campaign — which was something of a longshot bid, pitting a young and relatively inexperienced city official against a longtime incumbent from the same party — relied heavily on Asian American support, said a former congressional staffer from the East Bay.

• That made Swalwell’s ties to the Chinese American community, and particularly APAPA, the Asian American civic organization, especially important.

Read the full report on Fang Fang from Axios here.

Swalwell’s spox issued a statement to Axios saying he cut ties with Fang in 2015 after a defensive briefing.

“Rep. Swalwell, long ago, provided information about this person — whom he met more than eight years ago, and whom he hasn’t seen in nearly six years — to the FBI. To protect information that might be classified, he will not participate in your story,” Swalwell’s office told Axios.

President Trump’s rapid response director blasted Swalwell.

Read more at: TheGatewayPundit.com and CommunistChina.news

FBI warning to state and local police about China targeting individuals

 FBI warns state, local police about China targeting people on U.S. soil

Yahoo News,

9 December, 2020

The FBI is warning local law-enforcement agencies to beware of cooperating with a Chinese government campaign to coerce U.S. residents to return to China to face criminal charges, according to a counterintelligence bulletin obtained by Yahoo News.

The bulletin comes shortly after eight people, including a former New York Police Department officer, were indicted on charges of acting as illegal agents for Beijing.

“State and local public safety personnel should be aware that Chinese Government officials, such as diplomats and officials with China’s primary law enforcement agency, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), may seek assistance to obtain sensitive US law enforcement or non-public personally identifiable information on individuals of interest,” says the Nov. 10 counterintelligence bulletin, which is marked for official use only and was distributed to law enforcement agencies around the country.

The warning concerns China’s long-standing policy of reaching beyond its borders to target people it accuses of financial crimes, even if they are permanently living abroad. The repatriations, often coerced by blackmail or threats, are part of Beijing’s anti-corruption campaign called Fox Hunt.

In Beijing’s view, Fox Hunt, which has led to the return of more than 3,000 of its citizens, is a legitimate tool of law enforcement. But there has been an increasing number of allegations that China has coerced, even kidnapped, its citizens living abroad, and that it targets political dissidents as well as those accused of financial crimes.

In one of the more dramatic escapades, China reportedly kidnapped billionaire Xiao Jianhua from Hong Kong, transporting him in a wheelchair out of a private apartment in the Four Seasons Hotel. China has been accused of conducting similar operations in Australia, and now the communist government appears to be expanding its reach in the U.S.

Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-born Canadian billionaire, in Hong Kong in 2013. (Next Magazine via AP)

Last month, the Justice Department announced charges against eight people for acting as illegal agents of the government in Beijing in connection with their attempt to surveil and coerce U.S. residents to return to China. In one case, according to the FBI, a U.S. resident targeted by the Chinese government was given the option of returning to China or committing suicide. In another, a note was left for a victim: “If you are willing to go back to mainland and spend 10 years in prison, your wife and children will be all right. That’s the end of this matter!”

“The Chinese government’s brazen attempts to surveil, threaten, and harass our own citizens and lawful permanent residents, while on American soil, are part of China’s diverse campaign of theft and malign influence in our country and around the world,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement following the arrests. “The FBI will use all of its tools to investigate and defeat these outrageous actions by the Chinese government, which are an affront to America’s ideals of freedom, human rights, and the rule of law.”

While the U.S. does not have an extradition treaty with China, the FBI bulletin states that two years ago, the U.S. gave China protocols for seeking assistance from U.S. law enforcement agencies, which involved first contacting the FBI’s legal attaché in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing or working through the FBI’s international operations division. The bureau warns that Chinese officials cannot enter into any kind of cooperative agreement with local law enforcement without first contacting the FBI.

The FBI declined to comment on the warning to law enforcement, but the bureau has been pointed in its previous criticism of Fox Hunt, even offering to help those targeted by it. “If you believe the Chinese government is targeting you — that you’re a potential Fox Hunt victim — please reach out to your local FBI field office,” Wray said during a press conference announcing the recent indictments.

FBI Director Christopher Wray during a virtual news conference at the Justice Department on Oct. 28. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)

“While our standard practice is to not comment on specific intelligence products, the FBI routinely shares information with our law enforcement partners in order to assist in protecting the communities they serve,” the FBI said in a statement to Yahoo News.

In response to a query from Yahoo News, an official at the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. pointed to recent remarks made by the foreign ministry’s spokesperson, Wang Wenbing, who accused the U.S. of sheltering alleged criminals. “The United States has the largest number of Chinese fugitives suspected of corruption and economic crime,” Wang said. “However, in recent years, the United States has been responding passively to China's requests for cooperation on repatriating fugitives. Certain U.S. law enforcement authorities even publicly bolstered Chinese suspects, provided asylum for them and for many times obstructed some fugitives from voluntarily going back to China to turn themselves in.”

The bulletin doesn’t detail any specific cases where Chinese officials have attempted to speak directly with American local or state law enforcement, but it does suggest that it’s a tactic the government has employed previously. It also warns about attempts to enlist private investigators.

One of those charged in the recent indictment was an American private investigator who allegedly helped locate and surveil one of the victims and his wife, according to the FBI. The private detective previously worked for the New York Police Department.

Eight Individuals Charged With Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People’s Republic of China

Five Arrested As "Illegal Agents" Of China In FBI Bust Of Major PRC Operation On US Soil

Zero Hedge,

28 October, 2020

]The US Justice Department announced charges against eight individuals it says acted as "illegal agents" of China on Wednesday. Specifically the statement alleged they had been engaged in an organized campaign of intimating Chinese citizens currently on American soil. 

Five of these have already been arrested while at least one other is being sought by US law enforcement. The DoJ's National Security division Assistant Attorney General John Demers announced at a press briefing:

"[I am here] to announce charges against eight individuals for acting as agents of the People’s Republic of China while taking part in an illegal Chinese law enforcement operation known as Fox Hunt here in the United States."

They are said to have "assisted PRC officials in a scheme to coerce certain individuals to return to the PRC against their will," according to acting United States Attorney Seth DuCharme.

In the DOJ press conference FBI Director Christopher Wray called it "outrageous" that Beijing would think it can get away with conducting illegal operations on US soil. He said it was aimed to "bend people here in the United States to their will."

Here's how Wray described the operation Wednesday:

In this case, once victims reported China’s harassment to the FBI, we began a multi-year investigation in order to bring the perpetrators to justice and vindicate the rule of law. And the FBI is proud to have this investigation culminate in criminal charges—the first of their kind. Charges that will help China understand that surveilling, stalking, harassing, and blackmailing our citizens and lawful permanent residents carries serious risks.

That message is particularly important, because the sad fact is that this was hardly an isolated incident—and China’s tactics have been appalling. As AAG Demers described, Fox Hunt is a sweeping bid by General Secretary Xi and the Chinese Communist Party to target Chinese nationals here in the United States and across the world who are viewed as threats to the regime.

Considering the FBI Director singled out Xi in particular, this will surely be met with a fierce reaction out of Beijing. It's also being described as part of 'Operation SkyNet' - first reported years ago as China's attempt to nab its nationals suspected of corruption who had fled abroad.

But DOJ officials said this was a smokescreen for an operation which in reality cracks down own political dissidents and rival critics of Xi and the ruling communist party.

ABC reports one particular example of the Chinese stalking of those legally in America as follows:

Among the targets was a resident of New Jersey identified in court records as John Doe-1, whose elderly father was brought to the U.S. from China against his will "to use the surprise arrival... to threaten and attempt to coerce John Doe-1's return to the PRC," prosecutors said.

As part of the campaign to exert pressure on John Doe-1 his adult daughter was put under surveillance and targeted for online harassment, according to court records. Later, unsolicited packages were sent to his residence with letters and videos threatening harm to family members if he did not return.

It was apparently a multi-year campaign to surveil and harass Chinese citizens on US soil under the rationale that they were suspected of crimes in China. "Hongru Jin, Zhu Yong and Michael McMahon were arrested in the Northeast. Rong Jing and Zheng Congving were arrested in California. Zhu Feng remains at large," ABC reports further

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/eight-individuals-charged-conspiring-act-illegal-agents-people-s-republic-china?fbclid=IwAR3hscZZ_RbUjnOK5XR0tkpB-oXZdMJigrjmoRI8c1dqHKrfS6VYJlhJRuU