Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired U.S. federal workers, research shows

Everyone is trying to capitalise on the weak trump president. china and russia will both win a lot.

Of course Maga too as they are already tired of so much win, right?

Trump's disastrous policies again making America weaker, and its enemies stronger.

Reuters could not determine if the companies are linked to the Chinese government

All Chinese companies are "linked to the Chinese government" in some way.

All companies of any size must have a CCP cell, and China's 2017 intelligence law mandates that everyone must cooperate in matters of state security. No limits are delineated, so the CCP can essentially compel people to do whatever it wants (as it does anyway, with or without a "law" [sic]):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Law_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China

A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington told Reuters in an email that China was unaware of any of the entities allegedly involved in the campaign and Beijing respects data privacy and security.

The usual lies.

Reads like the latest anti-China hit job thriller, pitched at the anti-Trump crowd - for good effect.

This will reel in some gullible types. Neutered critical thinking skills a must. Subsceptability to dramatic plots even better.

Nothing compared to the anti-US and anti-West ccp propaganda that's brainwashing all the wu-maos.

In response to questions about Reuters' findings, an FBI spokesperson warned that Chinese intelligence officers can represent themselves as think tanks, academic institutions and recruiting firms to target "current, former, and prospective" U.S. government employees.

Precisely the exact same thing occurs in reverse in the US.

Yawn.

I don't know about making America weaker but Trump is making the USA weaker.

Nothing new here, and if Chinese Govt. thinks the many being fired from US Govt. for holding multiple jobs, never showing up at office and not creating compelling work "value" have serious $valuable info, then good luck!

"Reads like the latest anti-China hit job thriller, pitched at the anti-Trump crowd - for good effect.

This will reel in some gullible types. Neutered critical thinking skills a must. Susceptible to dramatic plots even better."

You are spot on!! The reason below is clear.

"The news agency's attempts to track down the four companies and Smiao Intelligence ran into numerous dead-ends including unanswered phone calls, phone numbers that no longer work, fake addresses, addresses that lead to empty fields, unanswered emails and deleted job listings from LinkedIn."

A huge opportunity for any nation with hard feelings towards the US, to recruit disillusioned Americans recently laid off by Trumps advisors. Many who voted Trump into office are now jobless and facing a nation with no universal health care, rising medical costs and shrinking social security support.

China, Russia, Iran and even North Korea have found themselves in the rare times that is an American implosion on itself thanks to Trump mismanagement. Creation of a pool of angry Americans with critical knowledge of Government, infrastructure and defense who have nowhere to turn for financial support may turn to foreign operatives, not even aware they are foreign operatives, to get a fast dollar or ten thousand, for information.

Another crisis created by Trump and his goonies, one more for the pile.

Peter14

"A huge opportunity for any nation with hard feelings towards the US, to recruit disillusioned Americans recently laid off by Trumps advisors. Many who voted Trump into office are now jobless and facing a nation with no universal health care, rising medical costs and shrinking social security support.

China, Russia, Iran and even North Korea have found themselves in the rare times that is an American implosion on itself thanks to Trump mismanagement. Creation of a pool of angry Americans with critical knowledge of Government, infrastructure and defense who have nowhere to turn for financial support may turn to foreign operatives, not even aware they are foreign operatives, to get a fast dollar or ten thousand, for information.

Another crisis created by Trump and his goonies, one more for the pile."

Laughable, pathetic views to the point of wondering what are schools for?

Laughable, pathetic views to the point of wondering what are schools for?

Is that a "coded comment" regarding the topic of this article? Seems to be gibberish.

So much incompetence from trump, I dont know if I should laugh or cry.

For something that is supposed to have been set up by a professional intelligence service with lots of staff and experience, this seems rather amateurish and lacking in resources.

What it does look like is what a scammer somewhere in the world looking for desperate people who might be willing to pay a fee, or at least banking information, counting on the Chinese Chinese addresses to provide anyone trying to track who was behind it a reason to stop looking for the next link in the chain.

Intelligence agencies tend to operate on a longer timeliness than scam artists because the first are interested in possibly wary specific individuals/groups, the second are interested in a specific type (desperate and vulnerable) who are not wary at all.

"For something that is supposed to have been set up by a professional intelligence service with lots of staff and experience, this seems rather amateurish and lacking in resources.'

That's very true, perhaps it was setup by Democrats sympathizers to rally their ever dwindling pathetic base. That party knows no bounds they will do or say anything for attention.

I don't know about making America weaker but Trump is making the USA weaker.

On the contrary, he’s making the U.S. stronger and it less dependent on other nations, particularly the rogue ones and it’s about time.

On the contrary, he’s making the U.S. stronger and it less dependent on other nations, particularly the rogue ones and it’s about time.

That is a bad joke and you seem to be only fooling yourself. Trump demanding and begging others to invest in America is the opposite of becoming less dependent on other nations.

So the root cause is the CCP, who twisted trump's spurred ankle, please get real. The cart lost all its wheels. heh horses want a good regular troughing to fill your belly.. Welcome to the private sector.

On the contrary, he’s making the U.S. stronger

How does firing thousand of necessary workers and letting them be hired by the CCP (which is what this article is about) make the US stronger? Keep it on topic.

One is losing all sense of proportion, not to mention all rational thought processes, if one believes the premise of the article - let alone all these "necessary workers are being hired by the CCP" nonsense - unchallenged. The real question is whether it existed in the first place in that case.

That is a bad joke and you seem to be only fooling yourself.

No, the people out of power are though thinking the opposite.

Trump demanding and begging others to invest in America is the opposite of becoming less dependent on other nations.

Then they get hit with tariffs, those that do, won’t, simple.

China is particularly recruiting ex federal workers from defense positions. This would be concerning, but since the trump govt is just sending out war plans to civilians on group text messages these days, maybe it doesn’t matter anymore.

Always blame in to China, who really put those worker in financial instability? Is it China?

How those workers can really feed their family, pay for their bill, send their kids to college? Nobody really cares right? Event only very few journalist track how many people really being fired.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/doge-continues-to-hollow-federal-workforce-after-already-firing-more-than-30000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_mass_layoffs

Always blame in to China,

This article isn't blaming anything on china.

Nobody really cares right?

Most americans care, actually. And are showing it in town halls.

Most americans care, actually. And are showing it in town halls.

And most are the people that didn’t vote for this President.

But you're the one who said it. Quote: "On the contrary, he’s making the U.S. stronger".

So, how?

Negotiated a bunch of new deals for manufacturing in the US, lowered the price of eggs and fuel, and has reduced inflation, sending the worst illegals back and that’s just two months into his Presidency, and what do the left have? Anger and more anger and Trump and nothing else, no solutions, no nothing.

Why would China want to hire a bunch of useless bureaucrats?

JJE,

"Why would China want to hire a bunch of useless bureaucrats".

Excellent question! CCP is not that dumb. The Dems victimhood comes in various way depending on the topic of the day.

On the contrary, he’s making the U.S. stronger and it less dependent on other nations, particularly the rogue ones and it’s about time.

But how does making the middle-class and lower-class poorer, taking away benefits and disregarding veterans, letting people get sick through misinformation and taking away health care, taking away people's employment opportunities, taking away people's freedom of speech, taking away their choice of religion, making people afraid that they could get locked up just because they have a tattoo, or because the color of their skin, and taking away funds to help people rebuild after natural disasters, make the U.S. stronger?

By deciding without any proof or research which jobs should be taken away, and that you have to be white and rich to be hired, he is basically making America weaker.

By saying saying that rules and laws only apply to certain people, he is basically creating a Fascist state.

By taking away people's freedoms that are guaranteed in the Constitution, he is lowering the quality of life for Americans.

By wasting taxpayers' money on frivolous activities like going to the Superbowl, going to Daytona, renaming a body of water that people could care less about, firing and then rehiring people, and playing rounds of golf, he is taking away the ability for Americans to live fruitful lives.

Of course most Americans care and the best way to show it is by turning up at the election. They did exactly that on November 5. The results were crystal clear. Like it or not the people have spoken.

Negotiated a bunch of new deals for manufacturing in the US, lowered the price of eggs and fuel, and has reduced inflation, sending the worst illegals back and that’s just two months into his Presidency, and what do the left have?

Completely avoided the question as usual.

How does firing thousand of necessary workers and letting them be hired by the CCP (which is what this article is about) make the US stronger?

@patkim

Nice list of CNN talking points. Writer?

"By wasting taxpayers' money on frivolous activities like going to..."

Americans want to see a vibrant leader out in public, not hiding in the basement of the White House slurping Jello while his wife use an autopen to run our government. It's not wasted money. Have you noticed how the crowds react? It's called "morale building", bringing back the American pride/spirit, letting Americans know and see who is in charge.