Quote:Safeguard Defenders has documented more than 100 of the outposts in dozens of countries, and officials are increasingly worried about them as a way for China to spy and keep tabs on its people abroad.

Quote:“As alleged, the defendants and their co-conspirators were tasked with doing the PRC’s bidding, including helping locate a Chinese dissident living in the United States, and obstructed our investigation by deleting their communications,” said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for the Eastern District of New York. “Such a police station has no place here in New York City – or any American community.”   

(01-27-2024, 05:00 PM)Blaine91555 Wrote: Illegal Chinese Police stations in the US.

I'd imagine most of us here are aware of this going on in the US. It explains fully what was happening in the video in the OP. Those people were scared and doing their best to make sure they looked innocent when the local Chinese goon squad noticed the video on YouTube.

It's sobering to see what can and may yet happen here as we are infiltrated by other cultures.

(01-27-2024, 04:13 PM)Lysergic Wrote: Uhh.... Fuck China!

Why does London hate its own?

(01-27-2024, 01:28 PM)guyfriday Wrote: This video goes over the trip that is taken, but it doesn't go over the age of the people or the true purpose of these intrusions.

(01-27-2024, 07:28 PM)guyfriday Wrote:  

Quote:ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill.
Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market.

Quote:There have been approximately 15,700 Chinese migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border just in the three or so months of fiscal year 2024, already topping the approximate 14,600 encounters in the entire 2023 fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.

There have been approximately 15,700 Chinese migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border just in the three or so months of fiscal year 2024, already topping the approximate 14,600 encounters in the entire 2023 fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.

More than 24,000 Chinese citizens were apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the 2023 fiscal year—a total higher than the past 10 years combined, and an approximate 7,000 percent increase from 2021 when 323 Chinese nationals crossed the border during the height of COVID.

Quote: The brigades, each of which can have up to 5,000 troops, are the PLAA's "primary maneuver force" and are organized into heavy (tracked armored vehicles), medium (wheeled armored vehicles), and light (high-mobility, mountain, air-assault and motorized) categories.

Quote:originally posted by: [post=27286087]Guyfriday[/post]
More evidence that China is preparing for something big. I believe that it's closing its boarders, but that's just me.
From: Reuters

Quote:HONG KONG, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered the liquidation of property giant China Evergrande Group (3333.HK), opens new tab, a move likely to send ripples through China's crumbling financial markets as policymakers scramble to contain a deepening crisis.

Justice Linda Chan decided to liquidate the world's most indebted developer, with more than $300 billion of total liabilities, after noting Evergrande had been unable to offer a concrete restructuring plan more than two years after defaulting on a bond repayment and after several court hearings.

"It is time for the court to say enough is enough," said Chan, who will give her detailed reasoning later on Monday.
Evergrande chief executive Siu Shawn told Chinese media the company will ensure home building projects will still be delivered despite the liquidation order. The order would not affect the operations of Evergrande's onshore and offshore units, he added.

The decision sets the stage for what is expected to be drawn-out and complicated process with potential political considerations, given the many authorities involved. Offshore investors will be focused on how Chinese authorities treat foreign creditors when a company fails.

300 billion is going to hurt China's bottom line. I wonder how they will lie their way out of this, or will they just shut their doors and tell the world "Go to hell".

Quote: The United States and international cybersecurity authorities are issuing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight a recently discovered cluster of activity of interest associated with a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actor, also known as Volt Typhoon. Private sector partners have identified that this activity affects networks across U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, and the authoring agencies believe the actor could apply the same techniques against these and other sectors worldwide.
 
This advisory from the United States National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the Communications Security Establishment’s Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ), and the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK) (hereafter referred to as the “authoring agencies”) provides an overview of hunting guidance and associated best practices to detect this activity.

Quote:Microsoft has uncovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity focused on post-compromise credential access and network system discovery aimed at critical infrastructure organizations in the United States. The attack is carried out by Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor based in China that typically focuses on espionage and information gathering. Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that this Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises.
 
Volt Typhoon has been active since mid-2021 and has targeted critical infrastructure organizations in Guam and elsewhere in the United States. In this campaign, the affected organizations span the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. Observed behavior suggests that the threat actor intends to perform espionage and maintain access without being detected for as long as possible. Microsoft is choosing to highlight this Volt Typhoon activity at this time because of our significant concern around the potential for further impact to our customers. Although our visibility into these threats has given us the ability to deploy detections to our customers, the lack of visibility into other parts of the actor’s activity compelled us to drive broader community awareness and further investigations and protections across the security ecosystem.
 
To achieve their objective, the threat actor puts strong emphasis on stealth in this campaign, relying almost exclusively on living-off-the-land techniques and hands-on-keyboard activity. They issue commands via the command line to (1) collect data, including credentials from local and network systems, (2) put the data into an archive file to stage it for exfiltration, and then (3) use the stolen valid credentials to maintain persistence. In addition, Volt Typhoon tries to blend into normal network activity by routing traffic through compromised small office and home office (SOHO) network equipment, including routers, firewalls, and VPN hardware. They have also been observed using custom versions of open-source tools to establish a command and control (C2) channel over proxy to further stay under the radar.

Quote: Judge Linda Chan said "enough is enough", after the troubled developer repeatedly failed to come up with a plan to restructure its debts.
The firm has been the poster child of China's real estate crisis with more than $300bn (£236bn) of debt.