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Biden has established the office of the president-elect
Senior US intelligence officials said officials in the Biden administration may have become targets of Chinese spies.
The director of the United States National Center for Security and Counterintelligence, William Evanina (William Evanina), said at a public meeting on Wednesday (Wednesday) that Chinese intelligence agents have been observing the people surrounding President-elect Biden, including Her future. A key member of the government.
On the same day, US Deputy Attorney General John Demers declared Washington’s recent severe crackdown on technology theft, during which more than 1,000 Chinese researchers have left the United States. Demers is a senior official in charge of national security in the Ministry of Justice.
Washington has repeatedly accused Chinese spies of stealing economic intelligence and national security secrets from the United States, saying they often use the identity of studying and investigating in the United States as a cover. Beijing has consistently denied these accusations.
In September this year, Washington revoked the US visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students because they were suspected of having ties to the Chinese military, calling them “high-risk” groups posing a threat to national security.
At the time, the Chinese government accused the United States of political persecution and racial discrimination.
Suspicion of spies clouded Chinese students
The United States Department of Justice established the “China Action Plan” in 2018 to counter the threats China poses to the national security of the United States.
A US Justice Department official noted that the more than 1,000 Chinese investigators named by Demers were not the more than 1,000 Chinese students whose visas had been canceled.
This means that recent measures by the United States to combat technology theft have caused at least 2,000 Chinese researchers and students to leave the United States.
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Some 370,000 Chinese are currently studying at American universities, and China is the largest source country for international students in the United States. Some Chinese students have told the BBC that their hostility and suspicion on American campuses has recently increased, and they even feel that their personal safety is threatened. A few months ago, a Chinese student studying in Houston, Texas, reported that the word “spy” was painted on the door of his apartment.
Ma Yingyi, an assistant professor of sociology at Syracuse University in the United States, said in a previous interview with the BBC that Chinese students studying in the United States are now “politicized and marginalized” at “invisible levels.”
US Under Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific Affairs David Stilwell told the BBC earlier this year that the doors of the country are “wide open” for students coming to the United States to study.
“But if you pretend (as a student) here,” Stilwell said, “then we must defend ourselves.”
