A new report from the House Committee on Homeland Security found that activities connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have surged under the Biden-Harris administration.
According to the “China Threat Snapshot,” there have been more than 55 CCP-related espionage cases in 20 U.S. between January 2021 and October 2024. Between 2000 and 2023, there were 224 reported incidents of CCP-linked espionage.
The report described several “startling statistics,” such as the following: “The FBI opens new cases to counter the PRC’s intelligence operations roughly every 12 hours.”
“Cases of Chinese espionage throughout the U.S. have expanded rapidly with Chinese nationals and non-Chinese individuals acting on behalf of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) allegedly committing a variety of forms of espionage including but not limited to, government, military, and economic espionage,” the report said.
In one example of espionage listed in the report, a former CIA officer, Alexander Yuk Ching Ma of Honolulu, “pled guilty to conducting espionage on behalf of the Chinese government through providing national defense information to the PRC’s Shanghai State Security Bureau.” He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Other examples described tech company employees stealing trade secrets, professors linked to Chinese entities, and Chinese nationals exporting sensitive U.S. technology.
The report comes as the Biden administration has “overseen the largest influx of Chinese nationals illegally crossing the Southwest border than any previous administration,” a press release explained. “While the motivating factors driving Chinese nationals to cross the border are multifaceted, a thorough review is warranted due to the glaring security vulnerabilities at the border.”
“The Chinese Communist Party is not satisfied with destroying freedom and repressing its citizens within its own borders. Beijing has continually encroached upon American sovereignty to spy, intimidate, and harass not only defectors, but even American citizens,” committee chairman Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) said. “To be clear, our adversary is not the Chinese people, but the threat that comes from the tyrannical regime that oppresses its own people, commits genocide, censors speech, and seeks to undermine representative government. It is important we remain clear-eyed about the threat the CCP poses to the security of the American people so we are prepared to counter its malign influence at every turn.”
