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Memos authored by House Republicans and Democrats, which have been declassified, showed that information about Papadopoulos’ contacts with Russian intermediaries triggered the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation in July 2016 of potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025 -
Related article China says a foreign consultant was found to be spying for Britain’s MI6 China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), which oversees intelligence and counterintelligence both within China and overseas, has also previously accused Taiwan of conducting spying activities.—
Eric Cheung,
CNN,
13 Jan. 2025
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Mutual espionage is a geopolitical game played by virtually every nation in the world.—
Lily Hay Newman,
WIRED,
18 Jan. 2025
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The study comes with tensions high between the U.S. and China amidst concerns over espionage, technology and a growing military rivalry and with a new U.S. administration headed by Donald Trump poised to potentially take an even stronger stance on China.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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China’s recent expansion of its counterespionage law to cover a much wider array of information, coupled with raids on some advisory firms and a pickup in exit bans on foreigners, has made the business environment more uncertain.—
Jami Miscik,
Foreign Affairs,
24 May 2023
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After the 9/11 attacks and the rise of Islamist terrorism, ASIO ran down its counterespionage capabilities in favor of counterterrorism.—
Clive Hamilton,
Foreign Affairs,
26 July 2018
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The director of national intelligence in theory sits atop the hierarchy of U.S. intelligence agencies, although no one treats the position that way in reality.—
The Editors,
National Review,
24 Jan. 2025
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Recap Ratcliffe also pledged repeatedly at his nomination hearing to focus more on the rising threat posed by China and to upgrade the agency’s technological capabilities to improve its intelligence collection efforts.—
Josh Meyer,
USA TODAY,
24 Jan. 2025
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