Five University of Michigan students from China were charged Wednesday by federal law enforcement after they were discovered at a U.S. military facility where exercises with Taiwan's military were taking place in 2023, the Detroit News reported.
The five students reportedly held cameras near tents, military vehicles and classified communications equipment at Camp Grayling, a huge National Guard facility where important training with Taiwanese military personnel was taking place. He was found in the middle of the night still holding it. According to Go to Detroit News. The five were charged with conspiracy to lie to federal agents and destroy records during a federal investigation, but they are not believed to be in custody and may not even be in the United States.
The students were in the United States supported by a joint program between the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Detroit News reported. The group reportedly attacked members of the Utah National Guard within about 15 feet of military equipment, despite multiple types of signs and signs making it clear that the area was off-limits. He is said to have fled shortly after being discovered. (Related: Chinese Spy Agency calls on society to cooperate with espionage activities)
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Other Chinese nationals in the U.S. are also suspected of spying on strategic U.S. locations, including two Chinese University of Michigan students who were arrested for taking photos at a naval air base in southern Florida in 2020, according to the Detroit News. Existing or confirmed. A Chinese student at the University of Minnesota also pleaded guilty in July to a federal case for photographing a shipyard that produced warships.
Camp Grayling is about 140 miles north of the area where China-linked battery company Goshon is considering setting up a factory with the help of large state and federal subsidies, according to the Detroit News.
The Daily Caller News Foundation, through its parent company, China-based Goshon High-Tech Corporation, has extensively investigated and reported on Goshon's relationships with major geopolitical rivals of the United States. The company's American division isowned and managedGotion High-Tech announced that the subsidiary had recently received subsidies from the Chinese state despite the executive's past in a Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filing. revealed. suggestion The Chinese government has no presence in American companies.
Additionally, Goshon High-Tech employs more than 900 Chinese Communist Party members as of 2022, and unearthed video footage shows Goshon High-Tech employees dressed up as Red Army soldiers during a company trip. He is shown pledging allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party.
Supporters of Gothion's plans to set up operations in Michigan and Illinois say the company also plans to build subsidized facilities near U.S. military installations and question the company's ties to China. They claim that this is misguided or bigoted. However, former CIA Directors Leon Panetta and Mike Pompeo said in Congressional testimony in January that they firmly believe that the Chinese Communist Party uses facilities like the Gothion plant in the United States for espionage and other nefarious purposes. said.
Joseph Serra, a former U.S. ambassador and current chair of the Michigan China Economic and Security Review Group, issued a statement Wednesday following accusations from five Chinese nationals who allegedly spied on Camp Grayling. .
“The Michigan China Economic Security Review Group has long warned of national security threats to Camp Grayling. [People’s Republic of China]”There are all traces of local incursions, influence operations, and elite capture through China-based companies with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party and often embedded espionage,” Serra said.
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