That's all right. You along with China, with your overblown misguided nationalism and ignorant paranoia isn't taken seriously either. What does China it's going to achieve by abducting and torturing the 2nd Canadian? Canada would fold and deliver the b**** on bent knee with an apology note??!! LOL No it's going to be more resolute in its resolve in following laws. One thing that the West (Maybe not France) does not do is negotiate with the terrorists.
Well if she really wants to skip she can still do so. She can shackle the ankle bracelet around her table leg in her home and put a dummy in the house for the surveillance and then go check in at the airport with someone else's passport. All Chinese look alike to westerners anyway. They are not going to know. Aside from the stock market reaction that may result from this due to the trade tension that may result between China and US, nobody in the West gives a s*** about this sickly old b**** unlike in China which is apparently a big thing. LOL
Too bad the company is not publicly traded so that you can short them right as she does that. Not sure that would be good for global business, and the company pretty much has a full-time begging routine now where they go around to the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia, etc trying to get various bans lifted. Not sure a move like that on her part would help, but it would have a lot of entertainment value so she should go for it. These little dramas run in cycles. Remember a few years back when that guy- cant remember his name- had Christine LeGarde's position- a french socialist, raped some immigrant woman in New York and the Americans put him in the slammer and let him sweat it out? He finally got out on some legal maneuver and left like a thief in the night. Not sure he even remembered to put his pants on. Lot of entertainment value there. Not so much for the woman he raped. There were allegations that he was set up so I dont know what the real story was. Previous cycles included Roman Pervertski and so on.
His name was Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He was the IMF chief. He eventually settled the civil suit with the hotel maid (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/10/dominique-strauss-kahn-case-settled) He was also accused of many other similar assaults - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn#New_York_v._Strauss-Kahn_and_later_allegations
On a more serious note, and I know none of you watched it on C-SPAN ... but the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony yesterday from the Deputy Attorney General for Cybercrime, the head FBI cat for cyber, and the DHS guy for the same stuff. Pretty scary really. Here's an example, this is about the indictment regarding what happened to Micron (MU) and the theft of their DRAM IP. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/prc-...-three-individuals-charged-economic-espionage EDIT: When I was looking for that, it looks like I wasn't the only one watching it... the WSJ was too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FBI Says Chinese Espionage Poses ‘Most Severe’ Threat to American Security The agency’s disclosures to Senate come ahead of expected charges against hackers linked to Chinese government; China suspected in Marriott hack The FBI is leading an investigation into a hacking attack recently disclosed by Marriott International. Photo: daniel slim/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images 51 Comments By Dustin Volz and Aruna Viswanatha Updated Dec. 12, 2018 3:34 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—Chinese corporate espionage has metastasized into a critical national and economic security threat, top federal investigative officials told U.S. senators on Wednesday, issuing stark warnings that Beijing is exploiting American technology to develop its own economy. The disclosures, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, came as the Trump administration is preparing to lay out an unprecedented amount of evidence in coming days about Chinese spying and hacking operations designed to steal secrets from U.S. companies. “Our prosperity and place in the world are at risk,” said Bill Priestap, the FBI’s top counterintelligence official. He later disclosed that the bureau has received thousands of complaints about suspicious activity by alleged Chinese government spies at research institutions in the U.S., and that every FBI investigation in these areas has unearthed larger problems. “I believe this is the most severe counterintelligence threat facing our country today,” Mr. Priestap said. “Every rock we turn over, every time we looked for it, it’s not only there, it’s worse than we anticipated.” Officials from the FBI, Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security testified before the Senate panel, with federal prosecutors poised to unseal criminal charges shortly against hackers linked to the Chinese government. Senators in both parties said that China’s actions were intolerable and that they would move forward with legislation to give investigators broader authorities to combat the threat. “In simple terms, it’s called cheating,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), chairman of the Judiciary panel. “And it’s only getting worse.” The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the hackers allegedly engaged in a sophisticated multiyear scheme to break into U.S. technology-service providers to compromise the networks of their clients. The rising concern about Chinese cyber-enabled espionage comes as special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional committees continue to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. While the threat posed by Chinese spies is of long-term strategic significance, according to U.S. officials, Russia’s trolls and hackers have sought a more immediate and destructive effect on Western democracies, showing the wide range of effects from cyberattacks. The federal prosecutors’ expected charges aren’t expected to address the recent breach disclosed by Marriott International Inc. A hack of the company’s reservation database for its Starwood properties may have exposed the personal information of up to 500 million guests, Marriott said. The FBI is leading an investigation into the Marriott hack. Suspicion is mounting among government officials and cybersecurity researchers that China may be responsible for it. Such a conclusion could further complicate the Trump administration’s efforts to negotiate with Beijing on trade and security issues. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared to publicly implicate China in the Marriott breach Wednesday during an interview on Fox News. While discussing Beijing’s espionage in the U.S., a host interjected that the latest example was Marriott, to which Mr. Pompeo replied: “That’s right.” A senior U.S. official said Mr. Pompeo’s public confirmation that China is suspected in the hack wasn’t expected. The officials at Wednesday’s hearing didn’t directly address the Marriott breach, and when asked about it, said only the government was trying to help companies prevent similar future attacks. While China is a leading suspect in the hack, the intelligence undergirding that conclusion isn’t yet definitive, people familiar with the investigation said. China has denied it engages in such cyber operations. The Marriott hack appears to fit more into the category of traditional nation-state spycraft than the theft of intellectual property from businesses, making it more difficult for U.S. agencies to condemn or prosecute it. One U.S. official said the Marriott hack fits circumstantially with the goal of Chinese intelligence services, as observed over the past several years, to overlay hacked private-sector databases with the trove of rich data on government employees pilfered from the Office of Personnel Management in a 2015 breach. Among other clues, the Marriott hack, which dates back to 2014, hasn’t apparently led to the leaking of any personal data online, suggesting criminal actors seeking profit aren’t to blame. But the official cautioned that there may be a rush to judgment among some in the Trump administration about the attribution of responsibility for the attack, given tense trade negotiations and an overall desire to strike a tough posture against China. The Marriott hack’s possible connection to Beijing was first reported by Reuters. A White House spokeswoman said the Trump administration would “continue to hold China and all countries accountable for malign cyber activities,” but declined to comment on any specific pending action, referring questions to the Justice Department. The Justice Department declined to comment. A Marriott spokeswoman declined to comment whether the company believes China was behind the hack. “Our primary objectives in this investigation are figuring out what occurred and how we can best help our guests,” the spokeswoman said. The espionage investigations also coincide with Canada’s arrest last week, at the request of the U.S., of a senior executive of China’s Huawei Technologies Co. A Canadian judge granted bail to Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, setting the stage for a new confrontation with China as the U.S. seeks the executive’s extradition to face charges over violating Iran sanctions. On Tuesday, President Trump told Reuters in an interview he would intervene with the Justice Department on the Huawei matter if it would help secure a trade deal, connecting two issues that his aides had earlier said were separate. On Wednesday, law-enforcement officials said they would continue to pursue the case. “What we do at the Justice Department is law enforcement. We don’t do trade,” the Justice Department’s head of the national security division, John Demers told lawmakers. U.S. intelligence analysts have warned for years about the likely espionage bonanza China has been able to amass through its hacking of personal information belonging to American officials and business executives. Chinese intelligence operatives are believed to be correlating sensitive information across the massive databases they have stolen from OPM, health insurers and banks—including fingerprints, foreign contacts, financial debts and personal medical records—to locate and track undercover U.S. spies and pinpoint officials with security clearances. Passport information stolen in the Marriott hack could prove immensely valuable to foreign-intelligence services that, for example, would be eager to monitor a government official’s travel. Several former national-security officials said that publicly linking the Marriott hack to a foreign government so soon could be risky, and that it typically takes months or years to correctly attribute a cyberattack. Private-sector researchers also have said that Chinese state-backed hackers are among the easiest groups to imitate, in part because some of their previously used malware code is widely accessible online. —Robert McMillan and Bob Davis contributed to this article. Write to Dustin Volz at dustin.volz@wsj.com and Aruna Viswanatha at Aruna.Viswanatha@wsj.com Appeared in the December 13, 2018, print edition as 'FBI Sees China as ‘Severe’ Security Risk.'
Well she works for a technology firm and she's a billionaire. That's what the prosecutors argued as the basis for her being a flight risk to deny her bail. The prosecutor's got a point. Tech + super rich is a lethal combination nowadays. They can make anything. You never know Huawei might be making her an invisibility cloak as we speak. There is already technology available that can make whole troops invisible. How do you know the Chinese haven't copied it already?
Well doesn't it make you think how can it become so big and yet it still doesn't need public funds, not one bit? There is a good reason why USA is wary about it. We are not stupid.