FBI Director: One New China-Related Investigation Is Opened Every 10 Hours
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case about once every 10 hours as it pushes back against Beijing’s expansive campaign to steal American intellectual property (IP) and influence policymakers, FBI director Christopher Wray said in a speech on July 7. Wray warned that Beijing’s counterintelligence and economic espionage operations are the “greatest long-term threat” to the United States’ economic and national security. Its stealing of U.S. technology and trade secrets is on a scale “so massive that it represents one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history,” he said in a speech given at the Washington-based think tank Hudson Institute. His remarks come as the Trump administration ramps up its actions and rhetoric against the Chinese regime in a range of issues from…
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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) released a report on June 17, titled “Genomic Surveillance: Inside China’s DNA Dragnet.” The report claimed that China’s Ministry of Public Security (Chinese police) conducted a compulsory DNA data collection on a mass scale in late 2017. Observers believe that this action not only violates human rights and personal privacy but also exacerbates.
The report indicated that DNA samples were collected from people residing in 22 of China’s 31 administrative regions (excluding Hong Kong and Macau) and across more than a hundred municipalities between late 2017 and April 2020.
According to the report, the authorities have collected DNA samples from 5 to 10 percent of China’s male population, or roughly 35 to 70 million people since late 2017. Furthermore, “those individuals have no control over how their samples are collected, stored and used; nor do they have a clear understanding of the potential implications of DNA collection for themselves and their extended families,” the report said.
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Hiring Soared in May as Mass Layoffs Eased
WASHINGTON鈥擳he job market took a big step toward healing in May, though plenty of damage remains, as a record level of hiring followed record layoffs in March and April. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that the number of available jobs rose sharply as well, but remained far below pre-pandemic levels. The figures, from the government’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey (pdf), or JOLTS, illustrate the whiplash the economy has experienced since the pandemic intensified in mid-March. Layoffs soared in March to a stunning 11.5 million, roughly four times the peak during the 2008-2009 recession. They remained extraordinarily high in April, at 7.7 million, but in May they fell back to pre-pandemic levels of 1.8 million. Hiring, meanwhile, plunged in April to 4 million, the lowest level since 2011, but…