But as the authors discuss, understudied and on underemphasized. I dont want to waste too much time at the big long intro. I will only have an intro so i can highlight the work of ab next to me whos been doing really fantastic reporting for the wall street journal on the same topic and im going to quote from one of her stories from this year because it sets us up nicely where in a piece coauthored with her colleague dustin boltz she says, chinese spies are increasingly recruiting Us Intelligence officers as part of a widening sustained campaign to shake loose government secrets. Current and former u. S. Officials say china has also grown bolder and more successful in traditional spy games including targeting less conventional recruits and she quotes the now infamous statement by Christopher Wray the fbi that no country poses a broader and more severe intelligence collection threat in china they are doing it through Chinese Intelligence Services through state owned enterprises through e
Highlight, promote, discuss this great new book, which just came out on tuesday i believe the third would be official launch date. This is about a topic which is incredibly relevant important but as the authors discuss, understudied and on underemphasized. I dont want to waste too much time at the big long intro. I will only have an intro so i can highlight the work of ab next to me whos been doing really fantastic reporting for the wall street journal on the same topic and im going to quote from one of her stories from this year because it sets us up nicely where in a piece coauthored with her colleague dustin boltz she says, chinese spies are increasingly recruiting Us Intelligence officers as part of a widening sustained campaign to shake loose government secrets. Current and former u. S. Officials say china has also grown bolder and more successful in traditional spy games including targeting less conventional recruits and she quotes the now infamous statement by Christopher Wray t
Results of the survey so stay tuned. So let me set the stage for a few minutes on a project on cyber enabled Economic Warfare really got started. It really had its genesis back in the 1990s in discussions with incredible smart people at the Smith Richardson foundation that is sponsored this work, but the intersection of economic and security. In 1997 the Asian Financial crisis it, remember . Began in thailand and the contagion quickly spread to indonesia, south korea, malaysia, the countrys throughout the region. Foreign debt to gdp ratios rose over 180 during the worst of the crisis. Writes occur, governments fell. The causes of the crisis were varied but most experts think it was the combination of crony capitalism, and economic bubble flooding the market with cheap money, and a simultaneous slump in semiconductor values with the rise in u. S. Dollar. What would it mean to relations, taiwan and china . What would it do to radical groups . It was the malaysian Prime Minister at the ti
Policy. It was emerrill rogers not that long ago said just as much as that, that we dont have a good cyber offensive policy. We talked about it ad infinitum in classified settings for the entire ten years i was on the Intelligence Community and we could never get consensus to move to the next place on what that cyber offensive is. And by the way just as a personal note i just saw that the Administration Says theyre going to make china pay for the consequence of the opm hack. I cant wait. I cannot wait to see what the heck that thing is. And candidly im not too excited about what its going to be. We havent crossed that threshold to bring everybody in a room and try to work through this problem. I would long answer to your question, but i dont believe they have the right to go extraterritorial to protect what they perceive to be a threat at that point. Thats fantastic. Thank you, thank you so much. We can get a hand for the speakers. Thats just great. You can see how we can make many hou
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi