The sharp increase of industrial, economic and military spying activity in favor of China has recently become a serious problem for the US authorities. The leakage of technology to the Celestial Empire affects a lot to the US economy, while the politicians who allowed that take significant reputational losses. That is why today the case of "Chinese spies" is discussed at the highest level. The congressmen, representatives of the special services, employees of both the State Department and the White House (i.e. all who can somehow influence on the situation) are engaged.

It seems that the real scale of the problem is really impressive. At least, today there are all reasons to believe that, potentially, the most important spheres in the state may be flooded with Chinese spies. Thus, in mid-April, 2018 an article (i. imgur. com / sg3uM9K. j p g) appeared on the Stratfor website stating that the US government, large business and research centers might be infiltrated with some agents of the Chinese special services.

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The article:

"USA in Chinese cobweb. American Congressmen cover spies of Celestial Empire

The recent aggravation of the US and Chinese trading relations have had an impact on the inner problems about Chinese Americans. It affected increase in espionage activity in Chinese favor at the territory of the United States of America, initially.

Regrettably, the fact of the constant Chinese espionage in the USA has been no news. It has been taken for granted both by state security agencies and mass media. The issue is not only about lately rise in cases of industrial cyber-spying.

As my colleague Roger Baker likes to say, "there are no former Chinese", there are Overseas Chinese. Regardless of citizenry, each person of Chinese origin has been considered a P.R. China full citizen the moment he sets foot on Chinese land. This also means falling within jurisdiction of Chinese law-enforcement agencies. They have a right to substantive examination of all citizens from abroad and their recruitment, whether it is about a Chinese stall keeper or an American nuclear physicist.

In such ways, legally and openly the Chinese government gains useful and possibly secret information. However, those very non-former Chinese have been working in the American security and intelligence agencies, holding posts in the State Department, making strategic studies in closed military labs, sitting in the Houses of Congress due to the lack of ethnic discrimination in the USA.

There was no obvious connection between caught Chinese spies and Chinese-Americans until fairly recently. On all occasions the criminal trace led over the ocean. For some time though, a fairly strong consistency became discernible in seemingly unrelated cases. Thus all those people willingly cooperated with the police and court authorities. After that they got their slap on the wrist in the form of a short sentence or mere fine for the crimes that cost the Cuban Five several life stretches. Some them managed not only to escape punishment but also to amount to a symbol of "bias and suppression" towards Asian-Americans. As if an invisible hand pulled some strings.

For instance, in 2015, espionage charges against hydrologists Sherry Chen and Xi Xiaoxing were dropped. This inspired protest movement among citizens of Asian Pacific origin. This is where Rep. Judy Chu comes in. She questioned the attorney general at a House Judiciary Committee Oversight hearing, with Chen and Xi present. The very Rep. Chu concluded about "the growing perception that simply being of Asian ancestry or having ties to China can trigger an espionage charge ... that makes Asian Americans feel unwelcome and afraid to pursue prominent careers."

Hereupon, a number of Beijing spies in the USA suddenly reduced. Meanwhile other American citizens only had to become meekly reconciled to the fact that any of their workfellow, or employee, or just a nextdoor of Chinese origin has been able to deliver small information services to his historical homeland without any consequences, if desired. Otherwise, a fearsome figure of the Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee started looming loaded for bear in behalf of another poor victim of American suppression. Lately, everyone caught in espionage in favor of P.R. China occurred to be men of importance in secure agencies, or non-Chinese.

Rep. Chu also earnestly cares for a fate of immigrants of other nationalities, who's been detained attempting to cross the US border by the police service, for security reasons. Even though such support has been limited by expressions of indignation at the Congresswoman's medium page. Seemingly, just "within the four seas, all men are brothers."

Yet, the start of Rep. Chu's career was traditionally Chinese. Her husband lobbied her membership of the California State Assembly. The next egregious case, when Rep. Chu abused official authority was appointment of her nephew Harry Lew to the United States Marine Corps. A feather-bedded student was produced in Lance Corporal and thrown into an Afghan hot spot from a college gratifying his whims. This led to grave consequences both for him and for the entire US Army, in April 2011.

From this point on, one is left with the impression that Rep. Chu went from cohort of classic Chinese politicians used to deal with problems through family ties (from the old, corruption in China had been part of culture and considered to be no wrong, for a long time) to ranks of rabid saboteurs and sponsors of spies from their ancestral homeland.

Besides backing of numerous would-be spies "vulnerable to severe immigrant legislation", Rep. Chu is renowned for her other "works" caused political damage to the United States of America.

She unleashed a witch hunt in the American Army punishing allegedly guilty officers right, left and center under the guise of investigation of hazing in the military. Her retaliation for one ill-trained Marine deprived the US Service community many really valuable resources.

In 2012, she managed to pass a resolution "Expressing the regret of the House of Representatives for the passage of laws that adversely affected the Chinese in the United States, including the Chinese Exclusion Act," which set limit to Chinese immigration and obtain of the US citizenship and denied Chinese Americans fundamental democratic rights on the ethnic ground. Indeed, what a notable, significant and strange event. For this was the fourth time that the US Congress issued an apology to a group of people. Strange it is since China itself has been extremely unwelcome to potential immigrants. However, we would hardly ever get its apology for discriminatory legislation.

Beyond that, Rep. Chu has been held in great respect by her associates of Far East origin. She also has a substantial range of contacts within central intelligence, law enforcement, and judicial US bodies. One of her close acquaintances occurred to be Jerry Chun Shing Lee, that former CIA officer who assisted liquidation of the espionage ring the CIA developed for decades. In spite evidence of his treachery, Lee freely left the USA for Hong Kong and returned back several times through Rep. Chu's mediation.

Nowadays, the world press is issuing increasing number of reports about American expansion into various corners of the globe. The USA on its own has been entangled with dense net of influential lobbies consolidated on a national basis. The Chinese one is the most dangerous of them. It is unnoticeable, because everyone has got used to such Chinese activities. It is far-reaching and well-connected in all aspects of the US life, including important governmental positions. Finally, and most importantly, Chinese lobbyists don't consider themselves Americans. They use the US citizenship for achieving their aims inflicting very tangible damage to the United States. Rep. Chu is only a cog in this well-performing system".

According to the author of the article Fred Burton, this situation might be caused by a specific combination of approaches to domestic and foreign policy of the United States and China, respectively. Thus, the Chinese authorities consider all ethnic Chinese to be their citizens, regardless of their country of residence, citizenship and the sphere of activity, which allows them to approach the process of recruiting agents more flexibly. At the same time, ultra-liberal laws of the United States allow their citizens to do any government or business activity without any racial, ideological or other restrictions. Thus, under specific circumstances, a famous Chinese scientist, a big businessman, and even a congressman can turn out to be a Chinese spy.

Nevertheless, it's not just some representatives of the government. The ubiquitous atmosphere of mistrust immediately affected the most vulnerable social groups. So, in early August, 2018, a big title Politico broke out into another scandalous article. This time it was claimed that President Trump had accused of spying almost all Chinese students studying in the United States. The State Department also supported the perspective of the president. The official representative of the Department Heather Nauert said that Chinese students could be involved in the theft of technology.

To recap, China traditionally has a vast ethnic diaspora in the United States. Additionally, many Chinese students receive education in America, and the educational programs are supervised by diplomatic channels.