Red waves

officials say that in response to China’s unfair practices the Trump administration will seek to narrow the trade deficit between the countries by imposing tariffs on up to US$60 billion worth of still-to-be-identified Chinese goods.

“Estimates of the losses of cyber theft alone are in the hundreds of billions of dollars.”

On cyber attacks, the 215-page report states that for over a decade “the Chinese government has conducted and supported cyber intrusions into US commercial networks targeting confidential business information held by US firms.”

The Chinese cyber thefts have continued despite an agreement reached in 2015 between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama to curtail government-sponsored cyber espionage.

https://www.atimes.com/article/us-trade-report-lays-bare-chinese-government-cyber-espionage/

WASHINGTON — The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html

Szuhsiung “Allen” Ho, a Chinese immigrant and naturalized American, faces a raft of charges for running an espionage ring aimed at stealing nuclear secrets for Beijing.

https://observer.com/2016/04/the-unpleasant-truth-about-chinese-espionage/

As part of America’s overdue awakening to China’s foreign influence operations campaign inside the United States,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/05/22/preventing-chinese-espionage-at-americas-universities/?utm_term=.34e0c80a688b

China's spies hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2010 until 2013 – and American government officials tried to cover it up, according to a Congressional report.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/07/13/technology/china-fdic-hack/index.html

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2992789-Final-GOP-Interim-Staff-Report-7-12-16.html