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How China Has Been Using Huawei-Made Cameras to Spy on the African Union Headquarters
Beijing has gone out of its way to gain information on African leaders in order to compel and coerce them into supporting China’s international goals.
Last week, a report emerged that hackers, probably from China, had been filching security camera footage from inside the African Union headquarters building in Ethiopia. Several years ago, AU technicians discovered that the building’s Huawei-provided servers were daily exporting their data to Shanghai, and that the walls of the Chinese-built headquarters were peppered with listening devices.
It is a strange way for Beijing to treat a continent whose rulers have emerged as key backers of its international agenda. Yet the Chinese government’s spying, which almost certainly extends far beyond the African Union headquarters, may in fact be one of the reasons why African rulers are willing to defend Beijing’s increasingly indefensible actions.
Ms. Feinstein reportedly is suffering major cognitive dysfunction, perhaps due to Alzheimer’s disease. This reportedly results in her increasing inability to remember who spoke to her, to whom she spoke or what was said.
We must sympathize with Ms. Feinstein, but she obviously can no longer be trusted with classified information. Ms. Feinstein should be removed, immediately, from the SSCI. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is reportedly concerned about Ms. Feinstein’s condition, but he has not removed her from the SSCI.
Ms. Feinstein, and another California Democrat, Rep. Eric Swalwell, are primary examples of how China is relentlessly spying on and trying to suborn congressional members and their staffs. Congress is, after all, a great neighborhood for spies because it is vulnerable and populated by liars, leakers and too many who are more interested in appeasing adversaries such as China than they are in our national security.