‘I must live, you must die, never to fight again.’

10-23-2019    The campaign to steal information is aggressive; Chinese spies now make up about 90 percent of perpetrators in U.S. espionage cases, according to Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies.

  Earlier this year an adjunct professor at the University of California Los Angeles was convicted for his role in an elaborate scheme to fraudulently acquire sensitive microchip technology from a U.S. firm, and illegally export it to China.

The semiconductor chips in question have both commercial and military applications, including in missile guidance systems for the U.S. military.

  Yi-Chi Shih, 64, a dual U.S. and Taiwanese citizen, in violation of U.S. export controls, managed to ship the chips to a Chinese company that he oversaw, which was building a factory in the southwestern city of Chengdu to produce the same type of devices….

  Meanwhile the FBI has more than 1,000 active investigations into intellectual property (IP) theft, “almost all leading back to China,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told U.S. senators at a congressional hearing in July….

  Nicholas Eftimiades, a former U.S. senior intelligence official and author of “Chinese Intelligence Operations,” told the Epoch Times that he’s compiled a database of 464 cases of China’s overall espionage efforts around the world, based on public prosecutions.  “Most of … [the cases] fall into the technologies identified in ‘Made in China 2025,’” Eftimiades said.  About 200 of those cases involve military or dual-use technologies, he said, and in turn about half of those are related to aerospace or aviation technology….

  In December the NIH published a report placing the spotlight on the Chinese state-sponsored recruitment program, the “Thousand Talents Plan,” which aims to attract foreign experts to work in China.  The report raised concerns that the program could be used to transfer key research--often produced with federal research grants—to China….

  The private sector and academia need to be trained and educated on the threats and also share relevant information with each other….

Casey Fleming, espionage expert and CEO of BlackOps Partners, said that every American needs to understand that China is a Communist country governed by a party that has been running a covert war against the United States.

  While most Americans may subscribe to the concept of “win or lose,” he said “the Chinese Communist Party is another level above that.  “They believe in ‘live or die:  I must live, you must die, never to fight again.’”   https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-authorities-close-in-on-chinese-espionage_3125374.html