Taiwanese national found guilty of working with Chinese intelligence
12/31/2020 10:12 PM
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Taipei, Dec. 31 (CNA) A Taiwanese businessman was found guilty of working with Chinese intelligence and handed a three-month jail sentence or payment of a fine by the Taipei District Court Thursday, though the case can still be appealed.
The man, surnamed Huang (黃), was found guilty of violating Article 2-1 of the National Security Act, which stipulates that individuals are prohibited from collecting confidential information or developing an organization for another country, such as China, to serve its military or for other purposes.
https://www.hangthecensors.com/481140.html (Natural News) A Chinese spy targeted a number of Democrat politicians in California while posing as a university student. Chinese national Fang Fang, who went by the Western name Christine Fang, established links with these politicians between 2011 and 2015 at the behest of the Chinese
Ministry of State Security. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and two Midwestern mayors were among the politicians Fang targeted for intelligence gathering,
Her earliest known engagement with the congressman was through the Chinese Student Association, back when Swalwell was still a Dublin City council member. Fang had developed close ties to his office and had risen in local political circles by 2014.
Dept. of Education Investigating UA Involvement with Wuhan Lab
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The University of Alabama is being questioned by the U.S. Department of Education for potential involvement with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) after the mention of a stated partnership between the school and the lab was discovered earlier this year.
The connection in question appears on the WIV s Partnerships webpage. Alongside the University of Alabama included other American companies and institutions like the University of North Texas, Harvard University, EcoHealth Alliance, The National Institutes of Health and the National Wildlife Federation.
The Australian government’s
2020 cyber security strategy is overwhelmingly focused on increasing the cybersecurity efforts of the defence organisation and law enforcement agencies. The mounting crisis in the United States from the hacking of software company SolarWinds indicates that this is not enough.
On 12 December, cybersecurity firm FireEye announced it had detected an alleged Russian cyberattack that had compromised the monitoring and management software on SolarWinds’ commonly used Orion network to get access to victim organisations potentially 18,000 of them. The US National Institutes of Health and the departments of Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security and State are reported to be among the victims.