The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security on Oct. 17 released an assessment, detailing recent instances of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-related espionage in the United States as well as acts of transnational repression.
The assessment, China Threat Snapshot, also documents recent legislative efforts to address these national security threats.
“Beijing has continually encroached upon American sovereignty to spy, intimidate, and harass not only defectors, but even American citizens,” committee Chairman Mark Green (R‑TN) said.
“To be clear, our adversary is not the Chinese people, but the threat that comes from the tyrannical regime that oppresses its own people, commits genocide, censors speech, and seeks to undermine representative government.”
There were more than 55 CCP-related espionage cases in 20 states between February 2021 and August 2024. They included stealing of trade secrets, obstruction of justice, execution of transnational repression schemes, and the transmission of sensitive military information.
Approximately 80 percent of economic espionage prosecutions allege conduct that would benefit China, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In addition, there is a connection to China in approximately 60 percent of trade-secret theft cases.
The FBI opens new cases to counter the CCP’s intelligence operations roughly every 12 hours, FBI Director Christopher Wray has testified.