Tariffs or not, China’s infiltration of US systems needs new attention

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Tariffs or not, China’s infiltration of US systems needs new attention
By Mira Ricardel
 May 22, 2025, 06:12 AM
 
The two-week Cyber Yankee exercise focuses on digital forensics, reverse engineering, malware analysis and other fundamentals. It also pits blue teams against red teams.
U.S. service members participate in a cybersecurity exercise, Cyber Yankee, in Connecticut in 2023. (Sgt. Matthew Lucibello/U.S. Army)
The markets are sharing a collective — if temporarily — sigh of relief as China and the United States reached a 90-day tariff deal. What cannot be avoided, however, is the underbelly of China’s relations with the U.S. and other advanced economies — namely, the unrelenting pursuit of sensitive data and technologies.

Press coverage of TikTok might lead some to think that the platform’s capabilities and Chinese ownership pose a singular challenge to regulators and law enforcement officials in the United States, Europe and other democracies seized with concerns about protecting privacy, personal data and ultimately, their nations’ security.


The reality is that China’s premeditated path toward legally and illegally seeking and gaining access to Americans’ personal data began more than a decade ago when the PRC hacked and gained access to the Office of Personal Management’s (OPM) database related to security clearances, exfiltrating the sensitive personal data of more than 20 million U.S. citizens approved for access to classified government material. The PRC’s purpose in seizing the data of current and former U.S. officials does not require much imagination.

Since then, China’s methods have become more sophisticated and largely focused on commercial approaches leveraging the growing digital environment. Also, the vast distribution of software and hardware supply chains over the past 20 years, especially to China, have further facilitated the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aims. Globalization ironically has been the grand enabler of President Xi’s vision to dominate the world economically and militarily on a foundation of stolen knowledge.

https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/2025/05/22/tariffs-or-not-chinas-infiltration-of-us-systems-needs-new-attention/

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If we can't trust the Chinese Communist Party with America's trade secrets, security secrets, technology secrets, and intellectual property, who can we trust?

We should not be trading with the enemy.  We should have never allowed so much of our supply chain to be dependent on any single source, domestic or foreign.

That was the Commie plan all along ... lure American businesses to China with cheap labor and the false promise of 1 billion consumers to steal technology, business practices, and intellectual property.