The Chinese government could certainly shut down fentanyl exports. Instead it actively subsidizes the drug and profits from the money laundering.
The organized crime groups involved are also being used in political interference operations.
A Chinese tracking device was discovered in 🇬🇧 Prime Minister's official car. The bug is believed to have been found in a sealed part of the vehicle imported from China.
Its discovery during a sweep first emerged in 2023, sparking fears that Beijing was aggressively spying on ministers in the then-Conservative government.
Now it has been revealed that the device was in fact found in the Prime Minister's car the previous year.
Charles Parton, of think-tank the Council on Geostrategy, told the Commons Business and Trade Committee: “The prime minister's car in 2022 was emanating data to China through the cellular module.”
This device is thought to have allowed it to communicate to others over mobile networks.
It is not clear which of the three Tory prime ministers that year — Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak — was being targeted.
Questioned by MPs about this, Parton — who served as a diplomat for almost 40 years, including more than 20 in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan – added: “A very senior member of the government who certainly knows whose car it was told me.”
The part of the car containing the geolocating device had been installed by the vehicle's manufacturer, reports at the time said.
Parton's claim came during a discussion about cellular modules, which he warned are 'in everything' including planes, cars and even smart doorbells.
“The Chinese aim to get a monopoly in the manufacture of cellular modules, and they're doing pretty well at that already,” he told MPs.
“If the Chinese wish to shut off all your vehicles, because they've all got cellular modules, it wouldn't be difficult.”
Security officials have since dismantled government vehicles used by ministers and diplomats while looking for tracking devices.
Electronic vehicle parts are said to be embedded with SIM cards before being sent to manufacturers as sealed units, with these capable of sending data back to state-owned suppliers in China.
It is understood the Prime Minister's car is run by the Metropolitan Police.
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@nationalpost@financialpost rescue? Why need to? so investors in property market are well protected by the government? Or they want a lost decade like what Japanese government did? Let it BURST!
In one hour, we will launch a major research paper on the Five Eyes' strategic dependence on Chinese supply chains in the @UKParliament. Please join us in Committee Room 3A. @DavidAltonHL Charlie Parton, @Chrissie_W13, and myself. The Paper will go live tomorrow.
A hidden spy camera was just discovered inside a ceiling panel at the absolute heart of the UK government, and intelligence agencies have no idea who is watching. The device was found inside the heavily guarded Whitehall building housing the Home Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Security officials are scrambling to figure out how a hostile actor bypassed elite checkpoints to plant the camera, how long it has been recording, and exactly what high-level state secrets have been covertly streamed out of the building.
The timing of this catastrophic breach is terrifying. This exact Whitehall hub was the operational command center where civil servants handled the fiercely contested, fast-tracked approval of China’s new London mega-embassy earlier this year. That massive diplomatic compound, set to be Europe's largest, was pushed through by ministers despite explicit warnings from security experts that the site sits directly over critical fiber-optic cables carrying vital financial and government data. The reality that a covert camera was active in the very offices managing this geopolitical flashpoint raises immediate fears of a successful, high-level foreign intelligence operation.
This breach completely shreds the illusion of Whitehall’s physical security. For a physical spy camera to be hardwired into a ceiling, the perpetrator either possessed an insider security pass or exploited a massive blind spot in maintenance vetting and routine electronic bug sweeps. With a high-stakes judicial review of the Chinese embassy decision looming, MI5 is left racing against the clock to assess the damage to a domestic security hub that has been thoroughly compromised from the inside out.
#Whitehall #Espionage #NationalSecurity #UKPolitics #HomeOffice #ChinaEmbassy #MI5 #SecurityBreach
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Animal Farm
1. 培養惡狗
2.僭建法律條文 (七個戒條)
3.散播歪理
4.帶動方向 (直到 冇 辦法 討論)
5.篡改歷史
1. Cultivate vicious dogs
2. Unauthorized Construction Law Provisions
3. Spread fallacies
4. Drive direction (until there’s no way to discuss it).
5. Tampering with history
"Some forces want to damage China-Philippines relations and target Chinese citizens. They want to bully Chinese people. We must firmly and loudly say 'No' to them... Chinese people are not easy targets and those who bully Chinese people will face serious consequences," Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Jing Quan said on Sunday at the inauguration ceremony of the 93rd council of the Philippine Hong Chong Grand Mason Association, amid a series of recent cases in which Chinese citizens have been detained by Philippine authorities. The embassy stated that 64 Chinese nationals working at a steel plant in Misamis Oriental, the Philippines, were freed on May 28. They have been detained by Philippine law enforcement authorities since May 15.
U.S. intelligence is worried because China’s MSS is not just spying from overseas. The FBI says two Chinese nationals were working inside America, taking photos of a naval base, setting up a cash dead drop, and trying to recruit U.S. military members. #espionage#nationalsecurity #homelandsecurity
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Below is an example of the propaganda and disinformation distributed through the media arm of the CCP.
For those who can't read Mandarin, the China Daily post below completely misquoted and misrepresented without permission Dr @HiroOgi5 and I's comments on #Japan's defense build up and the reasons for it.
🚨 JUST IN: Authorities just CAUGHT a group of CHINESE Special Interest Aliens dressed in camouflage trying to evade detection at the southern border in Texas
Thank GOD they were caught! 👏🏻
Texas DPS is constantly assisting Border agents, also running an operation to catch human smugglers fleeing in a Jeep (top video), which had six illegal aliens
Keep protecting America! 🇺🇸
.@PalmerLuckey: "Patents are Chinese instruction manuals" and we need to reinvent the US patent system:
"Stop patenting everything."
"The Founding Fathers never predicted a world where you'd have a globalized economy, and the entire patent office could be downloaded every single morning, ripped off, and then used to fight a war against you."
" We need to really fundamentally revisit the patent system."
"I think we need to massively expand the national security patent process. You can obtain a classified patent. You can get a patent on something that you are not allowed to disclose to anyone, but you still maintain the exclusivity on those rights."
" We need to massively expand that program."
Via @HooverInst