Chinas honey trap is a weapon of mass destructon right here in California

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was the latest fly caught in China’s honey trap.The bait was a lover: Alice Huang.But Jensen won’t be the last.

It is a trap as old as time, spanning the world — and deployed right here in California, too.The Soviet Union has a long history of using this tactic.They practiced it during the Cold War — ensnaring a low-level FBI counterintelligence agent in LA named Richard “RW” Miller.  The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story But China, unsurprisingly, has begun mass producing this technique via a virtual assembly line.One early example was the case of Katrina Leung.

By the end, Leung had slept with two FBI China counterintelligence supervisors, obtaining classified information and influencing US intelligence efforts. I was an FBI special agent for over 30 years, working counterintelligence investigations in Southern California.Red China’s most concentrated efforts against us began once it was granted most-favored-nation trade status.

I watched the People’s Republic of China’s counterintelligence efforts against America, and specifically California, grow to surpass those of the Soviet Union. Presently, China’s spying activities dwarf those of all other foreign nations combined.Not only does China employ vast numbers of agents against us, but does so while employing a wide variation of approaches.

With the world’s second-largest economy, it brings numbers, power, and financial resources to bear that the Soviet Union could never have imagined.As an open society, we have some major vulnerabilities.China can and does influence our society and its policies by covertly funding political campaigns and social movements.

More directly, they place their people in our politicians’ offices. This has a long history.Remember C...