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AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Elaine Chao held Chinese Communist Party-linked appointments while serving in two U.S. Cabinet posts, investigation finds

Former Labor and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao received at least four positions from Chinese Communist Party-affiliated organizations, some overlapping with her years in the U.S. Cabinet, raising serious questions about undisclosed foreign ties. Chinese government officials appointed Chao to multiple advisory and honorary roles within arms of the CCP's United Front Work Department starting in […] The post Elaine Chao held Chinese Communist Party-linked appointments while serving in two U.S. Cabinet posts, investigation finds appeared first on American Almanac .

Former Labor and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao received at least four positions from Chinese Communist Party-affiliated organizations, some overlapping with her years in the U.S. Cabinet, raising serious questions about undisclosed foreign ties. Chinese government officials appointed Chao to multiple advisory and honorary roles within arms of the CCP's United Front Work Department starting in 2008, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported after translating Chinese government and state media records. The positions span both her tenure as Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush and her service as Secretary of Transportation during Donald Trump's first term. Chao's spokesman denied she ever held a foreign government position or…Open

NYTIMES (Dustin Volz) - Chinese Threat Requires a Broader Spying Mission, C.I.A. Deputy Director Says

China’s economic competition with the United States makes Chinese companies a legitimate target, the agency’s deputy director, Michael Ellis, said at a conference.

CISA (CISA) - China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies

Executive summary China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies are conducting systematic extraction of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. AI companies’ models through industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns that form the core—not merely a supplement—of their AI development strategy. While “distillation” is recognized as a legitimate and useful technique in AI research, China-based AI companies are engaging in aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation activities at an industrial scale that extract restricted proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. frontier AI models. The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Federal Bureau…

DAILYCALLER (Alexander Gray) - Cheap Chinese ‘Surveillance Machines’ Cannot Flood US Car Market At All Costs

‘cheap, Chinese surveillance machines on our streets’

NYTIMES (Michael Schwirtz and Adam Goldman) - The Risk of Russian Sabotage in Europe: A Fight That Spirals Out of Control

Europe’s options are limited in responding to an unnerving series of plots and provocations. But the odds of unpredictable consequences are rising.

NYTIMES (Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart, Michael Schwirtz and Vivian Wang) - A Surge of Russian Sabotage Attacks in Europe, and Musk’s Political War Chest

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STRIPES (John Vandiver) - Russia hit with new German punishments over Leipzig drone discovery | Stars and Stripes

Germany’s foreign minister announced the closure of Russia’s cultural center in Berlin, suspected by German officials of serving as an espionage hub.

AMERICANGREATNESS (AG News Staff) - American Journalist Sentenced to Prison for Secretly Working for Chinese Intelligence

An American journalist who admitted helping Chinese intelligence recruit sources and obtain sensitive U.S. government information was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison. […] Source

JUSTTHENEWS (Ashe Short) - Fourth university in three years settles federal claims over hidden Chinese research ties

Taxpayer-funded research at American universities is supposed to come with full disclosure of who else is paying the researchers.

THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - U.S. Journalist Sentenced for Acting as Agent of the CCP.

An American journalist has been sentenced to two years in prison for working as an unregistered agent for communist China.

An American journalist has been sentenced to two years in prison for aiding a Chinese intelligence officer in a scheme to collect sensitive information from the United States following a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI ) operation. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: An American journalist has been sentenced to two years in prison for working as an unregistered agent for communist China. DETAIL: Thomas Pauken II, an American journalist, was convicted in June of working as an unregistered agent for communist China between 2019 and 2026. Pauken admitted to assisting a Chinese agent connected to the Ministry of State Security in recruiting people, providing them with equipment, and gathering sensitive information in the United States.…Open