Suspected Chinese spies try to infiltrate US military bases in Alaska

In recent years, Chinese citizens suspected of being spies have made multiple efforts to infiltrate military facilities in Alaska, where many sensitive bases are located.
According to USA Today, an incident… pic.twitter.com/4Yvtzswn8C

— Spotlight on China (@spotlightoncn) June 1, 2023

The new reporting of suspected Chinese spies in Alaska is another wake-up call that we are in a new era of authoritarian aggression led by dictators in China and Russia. It’s also another example of just how important Alaska is for America’s national defense. pic.twitter.com/p2xYgPRaCF

— Sen. Dan Sullivan (@SenDanSullivan) June 2, 2023

“A new era of authoritarian aggression” is codeword for “penis should only go in vagina.”

The US thinks the penis should go in the anus, and they won’t stand for people disagreeing with that premise.

New York Post:

Suspected Chinese spies disguised as tourists have repeatedly attempted to enter US military bases in Alaska in recent years, service members say.

The Chinese citizens have been apprehended trying to gain entry at bases like Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, where soldiers on one occasion searched a vehicle that had blown past a checkpoint and found a drone, according to troops who spoke with USA Today.

Many of the foreign nationals claimed to have gotten lost while driving around and taking in the sights of the Last Frontier, where the US houses sensitive military capabilities at the nation’s closest point to adversaries Russia, North Korea and China.

“We take the safety and security of our people in our installations very seriously,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said recently when asked about China’s spying during a recent visit to the state.

“We always live with the possibility of intrusion on our installations, and so we work very hard to make sure, working alongside state and local authorities and others, that those bases and installations are protected from threats,” she added. “We take a lot of measures to do that. And we’re going to make sure we can continue to protect our installation so our folks can perform their missions.”

The news comes at a time of heightened tension between the Pacific powers, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s aggression toward Taiwan and ambitions in the South China Sea have chilled relations.

Retired Air Force Gen. David Deptula told USA Today that incursions by the alleged spies could lead to American military communications being monitored via sensors left concealed at the bases, which include Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage and Eielson Air Force Base outside of Fairbanks.

It’s tiresome.

The most tiresome thing is that Fatmericans believe this tripe. The “conservatives” believe it. It’s the only thing Brandon says that they believe. But it’s also of the most relevance to man in the universe.

Watch the moment a Chinese jet buzzed an American spy plane over the South China Sea and flew directly in front of the plane’s nose, a maneuver the U.S. military called “unnecessarily aggressive.” Here’s what to know about U.S.-China relations: https://t.co/FrD5CPGzZc pic.twitter.com/2mfGlre0QA

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 1, 2023

It’s very concerning that the CEO of TikTok can’t be honest and admit what we already know to be true—China has access to TikTok user data.

The House will be moving forward with legislation to protect Americans from the technological tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party.

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) March 26, 2023

Every app has the same data access. If Apple is secretly giving special access to TikTok, that is a crime that people at Apple could go to prison over.

But of course, no one is alleging that Apple is doing that. Instead, Kevin McCarthy and the Democrats are relying on the fact that the overwhelming majority of people do not know how an app works or what permissions are.

This is how America works: everything the leaders say could be disproved with a 30 second Google search, but Americans are simply too fat and stupid to do these searches.

Reuters:

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday lawmakers will move forward with legislation to address national security worries about TikTok, alleging China’s government had access to the short video app’s user data.

In the United States, there are growing calls to ban TikTok, owned by China-based company ByteDance, or to pass bipartisan legislation to give President Joe Biden’s administration legal authority to seek a ban. Devices owned by the U.S. government were recently banned from having the app installed.

“The House will be moving forward with legislation to protect Americans from the technological tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party,” McCarthy said on Twitter.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before a U.S. House Committee for about five hours on Thursday, and lawmakers from both parties grilled him about national security and other concerns involving the app, which has 150 million American users.

In Thursday’s hearing, the TikTok CEO was asked if of the app, has spied on Americans at Beijing’s request. Chew answered, “No.”

Republican Representative Neal Dunn then referenced the company’s disclosure in December that some China-based employees at ByteDance improperly accessed TikTok user data of two journalists and were no longer employed by the company. He repeated his question about whether ByteDance was spying.

“I don’t think that spying is the right way to describe it,” Chew said. He went on to describe the reports as involving an “internal investigation” before being cut off.

McCarthy, a Republican, said in a tweet on Sunday, “It’s very concerning that the CEO of TikTok can’t be honest and admit what we already know to be true — China has access to TikTok user data.”

This data is not even valuable. It’s the same data that every app has.

The only potentially invasive permission is the GPS, and you can obviously turn that off. But what are the Chinese going to do with that data?

If it was so super valuable then, well – they can just buy it off the open market where every app sells that data.

Buying the data would be much more efficient, because the data you buy is packaged with a user profile much more significant than anything that can be gleaned from TikTok.

TikTok spying is another mass delusion like virus pandemic, black oppression, Ukraine democracy, etc.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s response when questioned over US user data.

Google, FB, IG and YT have all been lobbying the US government to ban TikTok because their platforms and algorithm just can’t compete with that of TikTok. TikTok is just killin’ it in Silicone Valley. pic.twitter.com/zO3YngFwNa

— Yes, it’s me (@ElysiusThor) March 23, 2023

MR SHOU ZI CHEW DOES A WIFI BASED APP USE MY WIFI pic.twitter.com/kfWBeibpVT

— mikki⁷ 🔔 (@koomornin_) March 24, 2023

It’s strange that governments even bother to do IRL spying anymore, given that it’s so easy to get caught.

Of course, this entire story about a Chinese spy having sex with mayors could just be made up.

RT:

A Chinese student slept with two Midwest mayors and cultivated California Democrats while allegedly spying for Beijing, an Axios report said, even as a Beijing professor boasted on video about having ‘people at the top’ in the US.

Between 2011 when she came to the US as a student and her abrupt and unexplained departure in mid-2015, Christine Fang worked her way into the confidences of a number of prominent Democrats in the San Francisco Bay Area, Axios reported on Monday. Fang appeared in photos alongside Judy Chu, Mike Honda, Ro Khanna, and Eric Swalwell – an Intelligence Committee member who rose to prominence by championing the ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy theory against President Donald Trump.

EXCLUSIVE: A suspected Chinese spy developed extensive ties with local and national US politicians in what officials believe was an operation run by China’s main civilian spy agency from 2011-2015, Axios found in a yearlong investigation. https://t.co/wQUOW8Jpij

— Axios (@axios) December 8, 2020

She also fundraised for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) in 2013, but there is no indication they ever met. In addition to cultivating prominent members of Congress, Fang allegedly “engaged in sexual or romantic relationships with at least two mayors of Midwestern cities over a period of about three years,” including a tryst in a car that was bugged by the FBI, Axios claimed citing a US intelligence official.

While there is no indication Fang was sexually involved with Swalwell, she did place “at least one” intern among his staff. Swalwell’s office told Axios in a statement that he provided information about Fang to the FBI, calling her someone he “met more than eight years ago, and whom he hasn’t seen in nearly six years.”

“To protect information that might be classified, he will not participate in your story,” they added.

Conservative pundits, including the president’s son Donald Trump Junior, have reacted to the news by calling for Swalwell to resign from the House Intelligence Committee and accused him of being compromised by China.

I’m shocked to find that Swalwell decided not to have sex with this nubile young lass.

I wonder what’s going on there?

He says he “met her,” but there sure are a lot of pictures of him with her.

Swalwell is probably not a Chinese agent, but getting infiltrated like this is embarrassing, and it is the kind of thing that people resign over.

Unnamed intelligence officials speaking with Axios said the FBI believed Fang to be an agent of China’s Ministry of State Security, also known as the Guoanbu, because of her frequent meetings with a suspected officer working as a diplomat in the San Francisco consulate.

“The fact that she was traveling around the country” and getting close to politicians “was a big red flag,” said one of four current and former officials who revealed she had been under FBI surveillance. “She was on a mission.”

Those remain allegations, however, as Fang abruptly left the US in July 2015, never to return. The Axios story, authored by Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and the Aspen Institute’s Zach Dorfman, says it relied on interviews with 22 sources, from current and former elected officials to political operatives and former students who knew Fang personally – most of whom remained anonymous.

Tucker Carlson played a video this week of a Chinese professor talking about how China has people placed at the top of the US government to pass policies beneficial to China.

Tucker Carlson segment on a video deleted from Chinese social media of a professor saying that China "has people at the top of America's core inner circle of power & influence." pic.twitter.com/h3Ygy6UlHk

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 8, 2020

Frankly, at this point, I have a pretty hard time having any sympathy with the US government.

It’s an evil institution which promotes gay sex, divorce, drug addiction and child trannies. They were asking to get infiltrated by the Chinese with their stupid “race blind” ideology, that allowed all of these foreigners to get involved with our government.

Every Chinese person is likely a Chinese spy. If they’re not a Chinese spy yet, then they will be when the Chinese come and ask them to be a spy. Chinese believe in race, and they will side with their race over a foreign country. Maybe if you add some element of ideology, you can get people from foreign countries to side with you, but what ideology does the United States government promote? Homosexuality?

Probably, if China put their mind to it, they could conquer the West over the next 20 years. Probably, the leadership of the West knows that, which is why they’re going to push for a war.

I just want to say, once more: there are options for disengaging China that do not involve a war or being taken over by China. It would simply require the United States military to withdraw from the Pacific region, and let the natural power dynamics of that region play out as they will. China does not want this conflict, but the West is forcing it by surrounding China with its military and making all of these demands, while also attempting to throw revolutions inside the Chinese borders.

The American people do not benefit from this conflict, and it would be great if we could just leave it be.

This is totally and completely insane.

What this woman did is “spying” and it is obviously and uncontroversially “treason,” and she gets a 40-month prison sentence.

This is something that used to carry a mandatory death sentence.

But in this country, women are not actually punished for anything, despite having institutionalized advantages over men in every sector of society.

Fed Smith:

A former employee with the State Department has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for hiding her extensive contacts with Chinese agents.

In addition to the prison time, Candace Marie Claiborne also was given three years of supervised release and a fine of $40,000 for conspiracy to defraud the United States. She was convicted of lying to law enforcement and background investigators, and hiding her extensive contacts with, and gifts from, agents of the People’s Republic of China, in exchange for providing them with internal documents from the U.S. State Department.

Claiborne pleaded guilty in April 2019. Plea documents show that she began working as an Office Management Specialist for the Department of State in 1999. As a condition of her employment, Claiborne maintained a TOP SECRET security clearance. Claiborne also was required to report any contacts with persons suspected of affiliation with a foreign intelligence agency.

Despite such a requirement, Claiborne failed to report repeated contacts with two intelligence agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), even though these agents provided tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and benefits to Claiborne and her family over five years. The gifts and benefits included cash wired to Claiborne’s USAA account, Chinese New Year’s gifts, international travel and vacations, tuition at a Chinese fashion school, a fully furnished apartment, and a monthly stipend. Some of these gifts and benefits were provided directly to Claiborne, while others were provided through a co-conspirator.

In exchange for these gifts and benefits, Claiborne provided copies of internal documents from the Department of State on topics ranging from economics to visits by dignitaries between the two countries.

Claiborne noted in her journal that she could “Generate 20k in 1 year” working with one of the PRC agents, who tasked her with providing internal U.S. Government analyses on a U.S.-Sino Strategic Economic Dialogue that had just concluded.

Claiborne, who confided to a co-conspirator that the PRC agents were “spies,” willfully misled State Department background investigators and FBI investigators about her contacts with those agents, the plea documents state. After the State Department and FBI investigators contacted her, Claiborne also instructed her co-conspirators to delete evidence connecting her to the PRC agents.

This is just hardly even believable.

What this woman did is a helluva lot worse than what Bradley Manning or Edward Snowden did.

What she did is literally the exact same thing that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg did and were executed for in 1953. And they were Jews!

What kind of a country are we running where a woman convicted of operating as a Chinese spy gets less prison time than a man who accidentally kills someone in a car crash?

If a Chinese woman was caught doing this exact same thing, she would be tried and executed within a fortnight.

Maybe this is more than just going light on a woman?

Maybe this woman had information she could have blown the whistle on if she wasn’t given a kiddie sentence for her crime?

It seems like that almost has to be the case.

Because this really just doesn’t make any sense at all.