Chinese national arrested after authorities said he was taking photos of Navy base

A Chinese man was arrested at a Navy base in Florida and charged with taking photos of the base’s facilities. Witnesses said they saw 27-year-old Lyuyou Liao taking photos around the perimeter of the Naval Air Station in Key West, according to the Associated Press. Those witnesses warned Liao that he was entering a restricted part of the base called the Truman Annex. Military police called federal agents, who searched the phone Liao was allegedly using to take the photographs. Liao told a Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent that he was just trying to take a picture of the sunrise, but officials said his phone contained images of the Truman Annex. The Chinese national was charged with entering naval property with the purpose of photographing defense installations.

In September of last year, another Chinese national, 20-year-old Zhao Qianli, was arrested on the same base. He said at the time that he was a tourist that was lost, but authorities found images of defense installations when they searched his phone and digital camera. Qianli pleaded guilty in February and was sentenced to one year in federal prison for the photographs. In September, a Chinese woman was convicted of one count of trespassing and one count of lying to a federal agent after being accused of trespassing at President Trump’s Florida resort and lying about why she was there. Last month, she was sentenced to eight months in prison.

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>>7649120

Agreed, but the Chinese also have a program where they send these 20 somethings..under the guise of one thing, when their primary function is to spy where ever they are sent colleges, military bases, science programs etc..

>>7649133

At least 79 dead in massive Somalia car bombing

At least 79 people were killed and 149 wounded after a car bomb detonated during rush hour in Somalia’s capital. The bombing occurred at a busy intersection on the outskirts of Mogadishu at around 8 a.m. on Saturday, according to CNN. Government spokesman Ismael Mukhtar said that the perpetrator drove the explosive-laden vehicle into a checkpoint.

Mukhtar said that university students are among those who were killed in the attack, for which al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab has already claimed credit. Al Shabaab is an Islamist terrorist group that wants to turn Somalia, an already war-torn and failed nation, into a fundamentalist state. The death toll is feared to rise as some of the more than 149 wounded people could succumb to their injuries. Photos from Mogadishu show the destruction from Saturday’s attack, including destroyed buildings, mangled cars, and bloodied Somalis being carried from the chaos.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/at-least-78-dead-in-massive-somalia-car-bombing

>>7649173

Couldn't agree moar, we need to put and end to the programs that allow this to happen in the first place.

U.N. Approves China-Backed Internet Convention, Alarming Rights Advocates

The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom. The General Assembly approved the resolution sponsored by Russia and backed by China, which would set up a committee of international experts in 2020. The panel will work to set up “a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes,” the resolution said.

The United States, European powers and rights groups fear that the language is code for legitimizing crackdowns on expression, with numerous countries defining criticism of the government as “criminal.” China heavily restricts internet searches to avoid topics sensitive to its communist leadership, as well as news sites with critical coverage. A number of countries have increasingly tried to turn off the internet, with India cutting off access in Kashmir in August after it stripped autonomy to the Muslim-majority region and Iran taking much of the country offline as it cracked down on protests in November. “It is precisely our fear that (a new convention) would allow the codification at an international and global level of these types of controls that’s driving our opposition and our concerns about this resolution,” a US official said. Any new UN treaty that spells out internet controls would be “inimical to the United States’ interests because that doesn’t tally with the fundamental freedoms we see as necessary across the globe,” he said.

Human Rights Watch called the UN resolution’s list of sponsors “a rogue’s gallery of some of the earth’s most repressive governments.” “If the plan is to develop a convention that gives countries legal cover for internet blackouts and censorship, while creating the potential for criminalizing free speech, then it’s a bad idea,” said Human Rights Watch’s Louis Charbonneau.

The United States argues that the world should instead expand its sole existing accord on cybercrime, the 2001 Budapest Convention, which spells out international cooperation to curb copyright violations, fraud and child pornography. Russia has opposed the Budapest Convention, arguing that giving investigators access to computer data across borders violates national sovereignty. The Budapest Convention was drafted by the Council of Europe, but other countries have joined, including the United States and Japan. A new UN treaty on cybercrime could render the Budapest Convention obsolete, further alarming rights groups.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/12/28/u-n-approves-china-backed-internet-convention-alarming-rights-advocates/

>>7649391

Believe so, on both counts..

Illan Omar Twitter:

This is a horror! My heart aches for those who lost their lives, their families and the entire Somali community.

The fight against terrorism is a collective one and we must all commit ourselves to it.

We also must not let those who spread violence and terror defeat our spirit.

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1211105972170772480

Other members of the squad silent.