“Through talent recruitment programs like the Thousand Talents, China pays scientists at American universities to secretly bring our knowledge and innovation back to China — including valuable, federally funded research,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in 2020.
Klause said the risk occurs when users open links while using an iOS app, such as TikTok, and view the rendered webpage inside that app instead of opening the link with a third-party browser, such as Safari or Chrome.
“China cannot bully the United States Congress,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) wrote on Twitter on Aug. 2. “I applaud Speaker Pelosi’s possible trip to Taiwan, which further emphasizes the commitment of the United States Congress to human rights, democracy, and freedom.”
PM Trudeau said his government is taking the situation very seriously and has promised to raise the issue with his Chinese counterpart. Beijing, which is in the midst of a national holiday, has yet to publicly comment on the events.
"There is a naval arms race between China and the U.S. China now has more ships than the U.S. China is projected to have the biggest navy in the region, even now by some estimates."
“The Department of Justice will defend the rights of Americans and those who come to live, work and study in the United States. We will not allow any foreign government to impede their freedom of speech, to deny them the...
“In one case, this lady was a recent Chinese immigrant engineer, and she was literally almost in tears, and her hands were shaking. She was so scared that somebody was going to take a picture of her, and that her...
“We must assume,” he said, “that every one of these applications coming from China, Russia, and other declared adversaries of the United States—we have to assume that these applications are weaponized against us.”
Tobias Ellwood, who presently chairs the Commons Defense Committee, stated that such “grey-zone interference” is to be anticipated from China. However, he wants the government to approach the matter with a “sense of urgency.”
