Two state-sponsored cyber defendants in China, accused of trying to steal the US coronavirus vaccine investigation and millions of sensitive government and commercial information, also turned to a Christian pastor.
The 11-department Justice Department indictment against Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 31, says Chinese citizens gave the Chinese Ministry of State Security the personal data of dissidents, clerics and human rights activists in the United States, China, and Hong Kong.
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The two also hacked into the private emails of a Christian pastor in Chengdu and shared them with officials from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which led to his arrest, Justice Department spokesman Kerri Kupec told Martha MacCallum in ” The Story “Tuesday night.
“For example, the Chinese government closed a Christian home church, and within a week, these two individuals were hacking into the email account of this Chinese Christian pastor, they collected those emails, submitted it to the Chinese government, and the Chinese government then he arrested that pastor, “said Kupec.
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“So these two people are doing a lot of damage,” he added.
In addition to the pastor, the prosecution says the two also “provided the MSS (Guangdong Department of State Security) with email accounts and passwords belonging to a Hong Kong community organizer, the pastor of a Christian church in Xi’an, and a dissident and former protester from Tiananmen Square, “among others.
Li and Dong’s actions are “concrete examples” of two troubling trends, Deputy National Security Attorney General John Demers said during a news conference in New York.
“China is using cyber intrusions as part of its ‘steal, replicate and replace’ strategy for technological development,” he said, adding that Beijing is also “providing a safe haven for criminal hackers who, as in this case, they are hacking in part for their own personal gain but willing to assist the state and on call to do so. “
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In January, Open Doors USA, a bipartisan persecution watchdog, warned of an “alarming” trend worldwide as China builds a “persecution plan” by monitoring citizens with constant vigilance.
“China is resurrecting ‘god as the state of government’, and we are all threatened by him: atheists, Jews, Christians, everyone,” said the president and CEO of Open Doors USA at the time.
“Its implications are not just for Christians in China, but for all countries and for religious freedom in general,” Curry said. Let me put it together. It is like a puzzle. The pieces are there, but it’s not until you put them together that you see it clearly. When you see it clearly, it’s scary. “
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“I saw with my own eyes the surveillance on the street but also in the churches, observing their congregation,” he said. “Face scans when you walk in and then they follow you and generate reports [with] assumptions built into his artificial intelligence system that tracks Christian behavior. “
Chinese officials have reportedly closed churches, removing building crossings and demanding that houses of worship be held to carry out opening ceremonies praising the response of the Xi Jinping coronavirus. Believers in China say the persecution has only gotten worse since the COVID-19 outbreak began in Wuhan.
