Richard Sanders<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beijing has accused the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of committing a \u201cpolitical provocation\u201d<\/em> by releasing recruitment videos in Chinese targeting officials in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian stated that the US \u201chas long been using all kinds of despicable methods to steal other countries\u2019 secrets, interfere in their internal affairs and commit subversion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The diplomat characterized such attempts as being in breach of \u201cinternational law and basic norms governing international relations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe US not only maliciously smears and attacks China, but also blatantly attempts to lure Chinese personnel, even government officials, to be their informants,\u201d<\/em> Lin said. He further pledged that Beijing would \u201ctake all measures necessary to resolutely push back infiltration and sabotage activities from overseas and defend national sovereignty, security and development interest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The CIA recruitment videos that were published last Thursday solicit covert cooperation from those in China who possess \u201cinformation about economic, fiscal, or trade policies\u201d<\/em> or work in the \u201cdefense industry\u2026 national security, diplomacy, science [or] advanced technology.\u201d<\/em> The spy agency promised to keep its informants\u2019 identities protected, offering instructions on how to safely make contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last month, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) released a similar add, targeting CIA officers, titled \u2018Your Option: Together for the Truth\u2019. Evoking the camaraderie shared by the US and the USSR during World War II, the video called on CIA personnel to join in resolving the Ukraine conflict, describing the authorities in Kiev as tainted by neo-Nazi influences and corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The video came after the CIA reached out to Russian military engineers through a clip of its own in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US spy agency previously produced several other recruitment videos targeting Russia, appealing to various ethnic and social groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Richard Sanders Beijing has accused the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of committing a \u201cpolitical provocation\u201d by releasing recruitment videos in Chinese targeting officials in the country. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian stated that the US \u201chas long been using all kinds of despicable methods to steal other countries\u2019 secrets, interfere…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}