The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Monday that Beijing would take countermeasures in response to the CIA saying it’s making progress on rebuilding spy networks inside China after losing assets in the country over a decade ago.
CIA Director William Burns made the comments last week at the Aspen Security Forum. “We’ve made progress, and we’re working very hard over recent years to ensure that we have strong human intelligence capability to complement what we can acquire through other methods,” he said, according to The South China Morning Post.
Responding to Burns’ comments, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said, “This is rather concerning. The US on the one hand keeps spreading disinformation on so-called ‘Chinese spying and cyber attacks,’ and on the other hand tells the public about its large-scale intelligence activities targeting China.” She added that China will “take all measures necessary to safeguard national security.”
According to a 2017 report from The New York Times, China broke up an American spy ring by killing or imprisoning more than a dozen CIA sources between 2010 and 2012. In 2018, a Foreign Policy report said the number of CIA assets caught in China was around 30 and said the spy ring was discovered due to a botched communication system.
Under Burns, the CIA has increased its focus on China by opening a new unit exclusively focusing on the country. CIA officials have said that Taiwan is a top issue for the new China unit. Burns said last week that the agency is working to provide early warnings if China ever decides to attack Taiwan.
Good luck Billy… Just don’t get Burn…!
You would think after the 2017 revelations that it would be terrible to be a CIA asset in China (or anywhere for that matter)…but I guess there are always some fools who take up the bait.
May a million spy balloons soar!
Every day brings more reasons to despise our so-called leaders.
None as much as the top progenitor of this war of genocide on Russian speaking Ukrainians for profit and power going so badly for the Zionist usurpers. They picked a bad time to confront Russia and will soon regret their uninformed folly!
Rarely does anybody need more reasons to disagree with us policy decisions.
The USA brags about their Chinese spying operations while the Chinese lie about their USA spying operations.
I hate to share it but the Chinese seem to be the adults while the kids just can’t help themselves with their childish bragging.
Just a hypothesis here, based on the China story and on the recent CIA “hey, if you’re a Russian and want to spy for the US, give us a call” thing:
I think these things are just little “instigate paranoia” psy-ops on the part of the US regime — attempts to get the Russian and Chinese all wound up over the possibility that anyone and everyone might be a spy. Which is just as silly and childish as any other reason for doing those things, but makes more sense to me. Then again, maybe I’m mistaken in expecting anything that makes sense to come out of DC.
spy on this
It’s more to get us wound up.
It’s such a cheezy bit of taunting it could be a post here.
Btw FNC just reported that missing Chinese diplomat who went missing after meeting Blinky this last time has been officially replaced.
Read into it what you want but that might be more important than this story.
“Which is just as silly and childish as any other reason for doing those things…” makes perfect sense if Putin and Xi have the same depth as James Bond meets Micky Mouse villains.
If Putin and Xi are smart, they have their own paranoias to deal with, like most politicians.
It’s further down the ladder that sowing suspicion and fear are effective. If a lieutenant colonel is convinced that one out of five majors and captains below him just might be foreign agents, and some of them are suddenly not so sure about him, the whole machine gets less effective.
A secret agency tells everybody what it’s doing? Good luck with that one.
hey Bob guess what my new job is – drinks on me!
Like the song, “What the world needs now, is love, sweet love…” To: “What the world needs now, is SPIES, MORE SPIES…” And I hope they’re all as smart and good looking as you are, Spy! (Sarcasm)
Burt Bacharach damnit
hey you sumbitch ask your wife if i’m good looking or not!
(Sarcasm)
LOL. Spy, you killed me. Last time I give you a compliment. But probably not. I admire you for your brains– not your looks. (Sarcasm)
I would imagine the Chines have upped their game since the last lot of spies were caught , you would have to be mentally unstable to spy for the yanks knowing what you will get if caught .
the CIA spy agency is ‘making progress’ in China
OMG i went to college and then i also passed the US military physical fitness tests and now i am embedded in the China? godamnit i just want to have Thanksgiving dinner with my family! hey assholes what about my retirement plan?
What happened to the network that requires “rebuilding” and not just improvement or “sprucing-up” …????
When your agency is such a dumpster fire that needs a “rebuild”. Good luck.
They’ve done such brilliant work with the “Uighur concentration/brainwashing camps”, the “Hong Kong democracy movement”, and “Taiwan independence”.
The U.S. spying on China? China spying on the U.S.? Naw, that would never happen.
I guess the cia is done staffing the spying of US citizens and are looking for work?