The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security held a full committee hearing on Wednesday to examine threats posed to the homeland by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cyber actors and transnational criminal groups. During the hearing, experts provided detailed insights into the sophisticated tactics employed by these entities to undermine national security. They also cautioned that Beijing’s cyber operations are designed to surveil and infiltrate—and eventually control —these critical systems and defense-related supply chains.
The witnesses at the hearing on “Countering Threats Posed by the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Security” included Michael Pillsbury, senior fellow for China strategy at the Heritage Foundation; Bill Evanina, founder and CEO at the Evanina Group; Craig Singleton, China Program senior director and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and Rush Doshi, an assistant professor of security studies at the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations.
Bennie G. Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi and ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security, said in his opening remarks that the problem is that Congressional Republicans’ tough talk on China is at odds with the Trump administration’s actions, which are hurting America’s ability to counter threats from the CCP. For example, China is carrying out cyber attacks for espionage and to position itself for attacks against our critical infrastructure in the event of a future conflict.
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