by Walter W. Murray, reporter
It’s the espionage threat that could shake the nation to its core — and it’s not the one getting endless, breathless coverage from the mainstream media.
While the press is absolutely fixated on Russia in their 24/7 effort to bring down President Donald Trump, the real story is slipping through their finger tips.
There’s another nation working to undermine American interests.
Not coincidentally, it’s the one Trump has been hardest on: China.
“I think China, from a counterintelligence perspective, in many ways represents the broadest, most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said last week.
Wray said Beijing is looking to replace the United States as the world’s leading financial superpower using both economic espionage and traditional espionage, with both human spies and computer hacking.
And much of it is aimed at American businesses.
“We have economic espionage investigations in all 50 states” from China, he told NBC’s Lester Holt at the Aspen Ideas Forum, according to excerpts posted online.
“It covers everything from corn seeds in Iowa to wind turbines in Massachusetts and everything in between,” he said. “The volume of it. The pervasiveness of it. The significance of it is something that I think this country cannot underestimate.”
Here we have the FBI director calling China the “most significant” threat to the United States.
Yet how did the mainstream media cover it?
Russia, Russia, Russia!
Here’s the AP headline, which was used in newspapers across the country and on websites around the world: “FBI Director Wray says Russia continues to sow discord in US.”
It’s true that Russia is also a threat, with Wray calling Moscow “the most aggressive actor” right now.
“Russia continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day,” he said. “To me, it’s a threat that we need to take very serious and respond to with fierce determination.”
But it’s China that’s the real problem, and the feds have so far been almost powerless to stop the espionage.
In fact, it’s getting worse. The Washington Post wrote in its review of “Tiger Trap,” a book about the issue by David Wise:
“His book paints a sobering, sometimes pathetic picture of American law enforcement and counterintelligence forces that appear woefully incapable of coping with the challenge from China. Some of the cases Wise details seem right out of the Keystone Kops.”
That’s right. The Washington Post actually sounded the alarm on China.
“Move over U.S.S.R.,” the newspaper wrote. “China is America’s espionage enemy No. 1.”
So why haven’t you heard about it?
That review was written in when “Tiger Trap” was published… back in 2011!
Today, they’re too focused on taking down Trump, and that means focusing on Russia and ignoring China.
Wise himself said that’s a mistake.
“The preoccupation with Russia, in fact, has obscured the significant inroads made by Chinese intelligence and cyberspies,” he wrote in the New York Times in March. “In some cases, China has proved more skillful than Russia in infiltrating American intelligence.”
He said China is operating on a whole new level with its espionage.
“The Chinese government approaches its spycraft differently from either Russia or the United States. It is often much more patient,” he wrote. “The Chinese may take years to develop a source and plant one inside American intelligence organizations. But they have managed to do just that inside the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Pentagon and the State Department.”
The media hasn’t heeded Wise’s warning… but clearly, the director of the FBI has, and hopefully he’s ready to take action.
Just don’t expect to hear much about it in the “fake news” media.
— Walter W. Murray is a reporter for The Horn News. He is an outspoken conservative and a survival expert, and is the author of “America’s Final Warning.”