Recently a number of senior U.S. government officials have said one after another that the Chinese Communist Party is now the number one threat to the United States. The FBI director impressively said a few months ago that they open an average of one counterintelligence case involving China every ten hours. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf re-emphasized Monday that the Chinese Communist Party is a direct threat to the well-being of every American.
A few months ago, White House National Security Advisor O’Brien, FBI Director Ray, Attorney General Barr, Secretary of State Pompeo and others gave major speeches on China policy, denouncing the serious threat posed by the Chinese Communist authorities to the United States and the international order. FBI Director Christopher Wray made it clear in a speech in July that the Chinese Communist Party had become the greatest threat to U.S. national security. He noted at the time that almost half of the nearly 5,000 counterintelligence cases being handled by the U.S. were related to the Chinese Communist Party, and that they opened a new counterintelligence case involving China every ten hours on average.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Wolfe emphasized on Monday that the Chinese Communist Party threatens the lives and property of every American citizen.
“The Chinese Communist Party threatens the livelihood, development and well-being of every American citizen. Your home, your school, your job, your retirement account and your health are all at risk.”
Chad F. Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security
Fang Fang’s case highlights Chinese Communist Party’s infiltration of U.S. intelligence
An investigative report earlier this month by Axios, a new U.S. media site, portrayed the increasingly bold espionage campaign being conducted by Beijing authorities in the United States. The report noted that between 2011 and 2015, a young Chinese woman named Christine Fang used her position as a student organizer in the Bay Area to get close to several politicians, including California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (D).
Chinese Communist Party directly threatens the lives of U.S. citizens
More than two months ago, the Department of Homeland Security released its first Homeland Threat Assessment, which listed the Chinese Communist Party, Russia and white supremacists as the three most important threats to U.S. homeland security. Wolfe on Monday reiterated the security threats China poses to the United States, including attacks on the legitimacy of the U.S. political system, continued disinformation to the American public, pressure on U.S. politicians, shirking responsibility over the New Crown (CCP virus) outbreak and more.
Wolfe added that the CCP also poses a significant cyber threat to U.S. homeland security. Beijing authorities have not only engaged in a long history of cyber espionage against the U.S. government and businesses, but also pose a growing potential threat to U.S. critical infrastructure.
He also reiterated that hundreds of thousands of American lives have been lost because of the Chinese government’s poor decisions in the early stages of the epidemic: “As a result of the incompetent and deceptive response by Beijing authorities, the new crown epidemic that originated in China has spread to the United States, killing more than 300,000 Americans and infecting millions more to date.”
Wolf said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will soon release a “strategic action plan to counter the Chinese Communist Party” based on previously released U.S. government policy documents on China.
Axios has learned from interviews with former and current local elected officials, U.S. intelligence officials, former classmates and others who know Fang Fang that he was likely appointed by the Communist Party’s Ministry of National Security to try to influence long-term U.S. policy toward China by reaching out to local U.S. officials who appear to have political prospects. Fang Fang abruptly left the United States in 2015 during a U.S. intelligence investigation into her, and she reportedly has not returned since. The report also cited a current top U.S. intelligence official as saying Fang Fang was just one of many Chinese Communist Party agents.
China’s political, technological and economic centralization, the authorities’ monopoly on resources and industry, as well as its disdain for human rights and dignity and the population’s fear of government retaliation, are characteristics that make it the greatest threat to the United States and the world, Wolfe said at a networking event hosted by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, on Monday. “The Chinese government has launched a series of political, economic and cultural offensives against the United States that undermine U.S. homeland security and the interests of its citizens. It is time we confronted these offensives head-on and responded appropriately.”
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