Posted on 12/20/2018 12:37:44 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
The Chinese government is poised to become the worldwide spymaster, intimately regulating the daily activities and even the thoughts of all people worldwide. Worldwide spook mastery appears to be the true vocation of the Chinese people.
A national precedent was in the Iraq of Sadaam Hussein, where such an extensive system of involuntary spying that up to 60% of the population had been shanghied into spying on all the rest.
China has long employed “block grannies” to monitor the activities of every citizen. Aided by Silicon Valley Orwellian high-tech, the Chinese government is engaged in a program of monitoring the details of the activities, and ultimately the thoughts and opinions, of its total citizenry.
At the same time, with a high proportion of microprocessors embedded with spyware manufactured in China, the Chinese appear poised to start deploying their spymastery worldwide, employing legions of Chinese citizens to spy on the billions of world citizens who are connected through the internet.
Last year, China’s authorities used Mr. Bean and Batman knockoffs to publicize the importance of safeguarding state secrets, as part of its first National Security Education Day. Now, a 10-minute long cartoon directed at children between the ages of seven and 12 demonstrates how—with the help of a grandparent—you can tell if someone in your family might be working for a foreign spy.
Schools are showing the cartoon, along with a video aimed at teens, as part of a month of national security awareness organized by the Chinese Society of Education, an association affiliated with the Ministry of Education.
In a video with the theme “national security is a fortress forged by the crowd,” a boy shares a story with his classmates about how he learned about national security. One day, the boy’s father, an engineer working in a Chinese military factory, is preparing to email photos of nuclear warheads and aircraft carriers to a foreign magazine that contacted him after he engaged in discussions in online military forums. The boy’s grandfather, whose reliability is established by showing him reading state-run tabloid Global Times, suddenly barges in and starts asking a lot of questions.
The grandfather points an article he’s reading about a man arrested (link in Chinese) for providing over 500 photos of China’s first aircraft carrier to an overseas magazine in 2014. Initially, the engineer thinks his father is being ridiculous. But on his advice, the engineer emails saying he can’t send the photos because they contain sensitive information. The people on the other end respond with threats and inducements (“green cards for the whole family”) and warn they’ve been tracking the engineer for a while. The frightened engineer then goes to the authorities and confesses these contacts. The local national security bureau promises to protect him from repercussions, such as losing his job, and asks him to keep providing information that could help in the fight against foreign spies.
The video is part of an online education package (link in Chinese) launched by the CSE, which says on its website that it started the campaign to promote the national security views of China’s president Xi Jinping, as well as inform people about China’s revised national security law, which went into effect in 2015.
The online education package includes 23 questions (link in Chinese) to test students’ knowledge of national security, and of China’s counter-espionage law, which went into effect in 2014. In another video for middle school students, actors and actresses demonstrate three acts that could count as espionage, such as providing official data to a friend studying overseas who claims to need the information for a thesis.
The Chinese Society of Education did not reply to email queries about the campaign’s scale, and whether it’s compulsory for schools to show the videos. Multiple local media reports showed schools were organizing the students to show students the videos in Chengdu and Shangdong provinces (links in Chinese).
China has been increasingly warning citizens about the dangers of foreign forces since Xi came to power in 2012. During this year’s National Security Education Day, Beijing announced that it would reward those turning in potential spies with a handsome fortune—as high as 500,000 yuan ($72,000). In January, China implemented a law to tighten control over overseas non-profit organizations operating in the country, while later in the year a new intelligence law went into effect, also aimed at curtailing foreign spying. Last year, authorities circulated posters depicting a government employee dating a red-haired foreign academic who turns out to be a spy.
Just a random, midnight thought, until I take my second sleep.
Here’s something related. Many of the world’s most influential investors are trying to push the Trump Administration out of the way, so those same investors can lay their own heads on stumps to receive the sledgehammers of the soldiers of the PLA. Emotion over logic...
Last year, authorities circulated posters depicting a government employee dating a red-haired foreign academic who turns out to be a spy.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
That was my ex.
She always liked egg foo yung.
Now she is being properly re=educated in a Junguo gulag ( sarc)
Give up everyone. Resistance to the Chinese is futile!
Where have we head that before?
They can have California, we keep the rest.
Hey Charlie O’Connell: Did you have the hots for Joan Weston?
China is projecting its own actions onto foreigners. It has long engaged in spying and industrial espionage; it is very likely behind the OPM breach that compromised the personal data of people who have ever been investigated for clearances.
While the media and those who would take down Trump (and the country) are trying to distract us with “Russia, Russia, Russia,” China is maneuvering to take over everything. It is a huge threat.
I caught a bit on the radio yesterday concerning some sort of relationship between the coming 5G network and China and spying.
Anyone know anything about that?
Democrat party “block grannies” to monitor the activities of every citizen. Also known as social justice warriors or snowflakes.
And the democrat media and politicians cover up for them screaming RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA.
Russia, Russia, Russia.
Don’t even look at the multi-trillion dollar China creature. The creature that has thousands of nuclear missiles within their thousands of miles of tunnels. The creature that Bill Clinton and the deep state sold/gave high technology to, enabling them to accurately target USA cities. The creature that the _federal_reserve_ have moved our manufacturing to. The creature that even now masses of USAians are eagerly buying products from...
Welcome to the insane asylum of our era.
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