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Federal officials have labeled Boston a major target of Chinese spies who are looking to steal trade and technology secrets from the US.
US Assistant Attorney General John Demers, who leads a federal force against Chinese espionage in America, said Massachusetts had become a focus of his team's work, the Associated Press reported.
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Massachusetts is home to top-ranked universities including Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It also hosts military contractors such as weapon maker Raytheon and defense system provider Mercury Systems.As part of the China Initiative, officials said they had met with local companies and colleges last week to encourage them to bring suspected instances of espionage to the attention of federal investigators.
Lelling said the large number of Chinese nationals living in Boston also made the city a potential espionage target, but officials added that most were in the US for legitimate reasons, such as study.
Technology workers should keep a close eye on Wang?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 10 2019, @02:50PM (3 children)
It pains me to agree with 'Zumi - but she's pretty damned close to being on target on this. I'll add to her observations, that the Assassin's Mace is quite far behind it's original schedule of "within 20 years", but it is still coming along. I give it another fifty to one hundred years, if it succeeds at all.
Let me ask you this: how many Americans even bother to think into the future? Our fucking MBA's can't think past the ends of their dicks. Few of our military planners can think even slightly further than that. Which politicians think past the next election? You can't find more than a couple dozen in each million who think beyond their own working careers. Meanwhile, the Han are thinking decades and centuries into the future.
Sure, they're only human. They may screw the pooch. Or, they may not screw the pooch. But, they do have plans, and we are the pooch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @06:33PM (1 child)
we need to use technology to make these parasites obsolete. fuck the federal governments of the world and the mega corps.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 10 2019, @06:45PM
Dafuq you say?
More importantly, dafuq you mean? Who are the parasites? Aren't they confined to Washington, London, Moscow and Beijing? Let's just dump a few plane loads of DDT on each of those cities, and the rest of humanity can get on with life.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 10 2019, @07:26PM
I'd say about 20-30% of the US population.
Who is "the Han" and how long will Chinese leaders listen to "the Han"? My take is that the leadership is muddling through too. Currently, they are somewhat more competent than corresponding US leadership, but there's nothing to keep it that way, certainly not a (far from unique) Chinese tradition of turning away from wisdom and losing mandates of heaven.
And?