China Espionage Watch

US Coast Guard and FBI boarded two foreign-flagged oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico after detecting foreign cyber actor compromise on vessel...

A dossier alleges that businessman Shui Shousong, president of the Sino-Canada Entrepreneurs Association and linked to China's United Front through...

US prosecutors have labelled Huawei a criminal enterprise, building their case on three interconnected allegations: stolen American technology, bank...

The 3Rs — Reduce, Replace, Recover — target exactly the attack vectors nation-states exploit in critical infrastructure.

• Reduce shrinks the attack...

The Five Eyes alliance has warned of an "aggressive" Beijing-directed campaign targeting UK government and military information. This joint alert...

Can the US and China establish minimal AI risk controls amid intense rivalry?

• The US proposed an AI safety alert mechanism and dialogue during...

Chinese state-sponsored operations are shifting from traditional backdoors to AI-assisted attacks, widening targets while cutting costs.

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China has added two new communications compounds at its Djibouti base since mid-2024, including high-frequency antennas, satellite dishes, and radomes...

Japan's Defense Ministry is establishing a dedicated division to swiftly counter foreign disinformation campaigns, explicitly including China's...

Canada's new foreign-influence registry launched August 4 promising transparency against foreign interference, yet quickly exposed those it meant to...

Commercial ships face real cyber threats from expanding digital systems, though not the dramatic remote takeovers seen in movies.

• LNG tanker case:...

Beijing's influence efforts have shifted from shuttered university Confucius Institutes to K-12 school partnerships and subsidized youth exchanges.

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• Military risk escalates: Xi prepares China "for battle" while US experts warn of a "very dangerous period" amid reports of China aiding attacks...

QTFY, tied to Nanjing Xinjiuwei and serving China's MSS and PLA, ran intrusions from 2018 onward using QScan and QTRouter tools.

• 2018-2021: Early...

This spring, a Special Operations Command analyst queried an AI chatbot to fuse open-source data with classified signals intelligence on a Chinese...

China's espionage spans military secrets to commercial data:

• Military and classified info: Cyber intrusions target networks, including the 2015 OPM...

Palantir reached CHCI's board with a $1,000 donation to Rep. Pete Aguilar on Sept. 15, 2025, a full year before its gala sponsorship deal triggered...

This UPI digest surfaces three threads worth tracking for influence and leverage stories.

• Taiwan arms timing: Washington weighing postponement of...

China interprets any resistance to its regional dominance as a threat, allowing offensive gray-zone actions to be cast as defensive countermeasures.
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