From 2010 to 2012, at least 30—and probably many more—Chinese nationals working as spies for the Central Intelligence Agency in China were systematically identified and either jailed or slaughtered thanks to the CIA’s gross underestimation of Chinese intelligence cyber capabilities. Jerry Lee, a former CIA operations officer turned Chinese double agent (where have we heard this before?), as the FBI belatedly discovered, was walking around with a bunch of Chinese CIA agents’ real names written down in a notebook.

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As national security journalist Bill Gertz verifies in his latest book Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy, this information led to the network rollup by a task force comprised of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the People’s Liberation Army’s cyber-warfare force then known as 3PLA, and other PLA intelligence entities.

The MSS was able to completely destroy the CIA’s networks in China through a combination of Lee’s agent details and the communications system breach. . . . At least three of the estimated thirty recruited Chinese agents were killed, including one who was summarily executed with a bullet to the head in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a Chinese government building in a blunt warning to others not to work for American intelligence.

Lee was convicted of spying for China in April 2019. Lee’s treason, combined with the compromised CIA agent communications system, led to the wipeout of CIA human intelligence gathering in China for years, probably decades, to come. For decades prior, the U.S. establishment had a problem in even conceiving of the threat.

Joseph Nye. . . at Harvard University. . . led the academic community and their cousins in the US policy and intelligence communities, who put forth the noxious argument called the self-fulfilling prophecy toward China. Call out China, he argued, for its quasi-totalitarian communist system, its support for rogue states, its human rights abuses, and its use of lies and deception that are the main feature of that system, and the world will create a China threat.

Unfortunately for the disciples of Nye, the Chinese Communist Party, and the country enslaved to it, is not a friend to democracy, free markets, or the rule of law, and never will be. It is a belligerent mafia, riven by infighting, and controlled by a murderous don in People’s Republic President Xi Jinping.

Gertz draws on example after example taken from the past 15 years both from his journalistic experience and from heavily substantiated reporting by others to catalog a comprehensive history of Chinese aggression and perfidy that hammers this point home. China views the United States as its enemy.

(Excerpt from the Federalist. Article by Tony Daniel.)