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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 1,000 Chinese investigators have fled the United States amid a US crackdown on alleged technology theft, John Demers, the top national security official at the US Justice Department, said on Wednesday.
William Evanina, head of the counterintelligence branch of the office of the US Director of National Intelligence, said at the same Aspen Institute Cyber Summit that Chinese agents are already targeting incoming administration staff of President-elect Joe Biden, as well. as “people close” to the Biden team.
A Justice Department official said the investigators Demers was referring to were a different group than those mentioned by the State Department in September, when it said the United States had revoked visas for more than 1,000 Chinese citizens under a presidential measure. that denied entry to students and researchers security risks.
China described the move as “naked” political persecution and racial discrimination that seriously violated human rights.
(Reporting by Mark Hosenball; Editing by David Brunnstrom, Leslie Adler, and Sandra Maler)
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