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A CIA whistleblower recently testified that a willingness to "make excuses for China" is "pervasive" in the intel community, where a neoliberal worldview that favors unfettered free trade and scientific cooperation dominates.
For example, the National Academy of Sciences (which has done clandestine work since the earliest days of the U.S. biological weapons program) works with Chinese scientists without counterintelligence checks.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe says he is righting the ship.
There are legitimate questions about data centers and Americans deserve answers as companies work to build infrastructure we need for our nation’s future. Unfortunately, the Chinese Communist Party exploits our openness and works to divide Americans through its United Front organizations and other entities. Its state-run media has published English-language articles overtly attempting to divide Americans on the construction of data centers, and some elements in China are attempting to do so by more disguised methods. The Select Committee will continue to investigate potential Chinese malign influence in the data center debate.
The fake thief knockoff Porsche fancy Chinese EV catches fire again and the criminal company tries to worm their way out of it with BS excuses again. Steal, Cheat and lie the fancy Chinese EV way
A Chinese national residing in Georgia pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder millions of dollars in drug proceeds for an international network, the Department of Justice announced on June 3.
Huang Puquan, 50, was indicted in April 2025 alongside two others. Prosecutors say the group laundered at least $30 million tied to the trafficking of illegal drugs, including cocaine and fentanyl.
Beginning in 2021, Huang engaged in a “sophisticated trade-based money laundering scheme,” traveling across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina to collect bulk cash from illicit drug sales.
To evade law enforcement, the conspirators met traffickers at odd hours in atypical locations. They avoided exchanging names, instead using dollar bill serial numbers as “verification codes” and communicating via aliases on encrypted apps like WeChat.
The group then used the drug proceeds to purchase bulk electronics in the United States, shipping the products to co-conspirators in Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates.
Prosecutors noted that Huang’s individual cash pickups typically ranged between $80,000 and $200,000. In one instance, he collected roughly $272,000 from a Mexican co-conspirator, which was later seized during a traffic stop.
The indictment highlighted a growing trend of money-laundering schemes involving Chinese "underground banking," which allows individuals to bypass China’s strict capital controls to move money abroad.
Huang now faces up to 20 years in prison. His attorney declined to comment on the case.
His co-defendants, Nasir Ullah and Naim Ullah of South Carolina, were indicted alongside him last year for their roles in the operation.
Justice Department officials emphasized that dismantling transnational criminal networks—and the Chinese money laundering organizations that support them—remains a critical federal priority.
This case follows similar recent prosecutions, including two Chinese nationals charged in Virginia in May for laundering money on behalf of Mexican cartels.
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@Huihui1980@ShangguanJiewen You bellend. I lived in China for 14 years, I have a Chinese family. I have traveled throughout the entire country by motorcycle. I’m calling your bluff
@ShangguanJiewen Free from morals because you work for the Communist Party state media and live a privileged lifestyle and lie. Whilst hundreds of millions of Chinese people live on less than 700usd a year, your daily McDonald’s delivery costs more than the delivery driver makes in a month.
The cowardly CCP uses our platforms against us with their relentless underhanded propaganda campaigns where they pretend to be people they aren’t in order to stoke hatred and division
A careless code blunder just blew the lid off Beijing’s multi-million dollar AI propaganda operation targeting the West. France's digital interference watchdog, Viginum, has officially exposed "Fawn Mianju," a covert network of 13 multilingual fake news sites running on advanced automation and generative AI. The sophisticated network was completely compromised after a computer engineer working as a Senior Project Manager at China's state-run CGTN Digital accidentally left his login credentials exposed in the code.
This operation, which expanded on findings first uncovered by U.S. cybersecurity firm Graphika in 2025, operated with deep financial backing. The domains were registered in Beijing, hosted on Alibaba Cloud, and utilized expensive infrastructure alongside paid plugins to artificially manipulate search engine rankings. Using digital keys linked directly to AI language models, the network automatically scraped CGTN articles, lightly rewrote them, and republished over 2,300 articles, often within less than an hour of the original state media broadcast.
Sites like the French-language "Actu Méridien" were weaponized to manipulate public opinion across 89 countries, heavily targeting Western audiences and Francophone African youth. The articles aggressively peddled pro-Beijing narratives, painting China as the undisputed leader of the Global South and green energy transition while explicitly telling Western readers that aligning with Chinese interests would bring them massive benefits.
Despite the cutting-edge tech and heavy state funding, the operation was an organic flop. The articles struggled to breach 15,000 views, with nearly 40 percent of its top social media engagement traced back to fake accounts in Burundi whose sole purpose was to artificially inflate the content. While the reach was limited, French authorities warn that the operation exposes Beijing’s rapidly escalating capability to launch fully automated, stealth disinformation campaigns designed to quietly erode Western democratic alignment.
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