This clearly shows that Chinese intelligence is targeting Chinese-Americans serving in the U.S. military to help with intelligence collection:
Two Army soldiers stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington and a former soldier in Oregon have been accused in separate indictments of sharing classified military information with China, according to the Justice Department. First Lt. Li Tian, a health services administrator serving in Washington, is accused of conspiring with Ruoyu Duan, a former soldier based in Oregon, to gather information secretly about the Army’s operations, including technical manuals, from November 2021 to December 2024.
Tian was tasked with obtaining instructions and manuals for Bradley and Stryker armored vehicles used by the Army and selling them to Duan, who was paid by unknown people in China, according to the Justice Department. Duan served in the Army from 2013 to 2017 and routinely made payments to other security clearance holders and active-duty service members, according to the indictment, though only two soldiers were named in indictments released this week.
A second indictment accuses Sgt. Jian Zhao, a battery supply sergeant assigned to the 17th Field Artillery Brigade in Washington, of obtaining and selling about 20 government hard drives, some marked “SECRET” and “TOP SECRET,” to buyers in China. Zhao received at least $15,000 in payments from August to December 2024.
You can read more at the link, but it is amazing for how little money these guys are willing to sell out the United States to China. After they finish whatever jail sentence they receive maybe they should be stripiped of U.S. citizenship and deported to China if they like it so much?
You would think by now people would realize any data you give to a Chinese company could eventually be accessed by the Chinese government. With DeepSeek the data is so far just been sent to ByteDance which can then be easily sent to the Chinese government if requested:
South Korea’s data protection regulator has confirmed that the DeepSeek chatbot, developed by a China-based artificial intelligence startup, sent the nation’s user data to a third party, the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance, according to officials Tuesday.
The confirmation came a day after the regulator, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), announced it has temporarily suspended new downloads of DeepSeek in South Korea over concerns about its data collection practices.
“We confirmed DeepSeek communicating with ByteDance,” a PIPC official said.
You can read more at the link.
