Epoch Times - Why the Chinese Regime Is a ‘Criminal State’: Nicholas Eftimiades
Aired: 2025-05-19
Duration: 01:35


=== Criminal State Espionage (01:35) ===

[00:00:00]  We've seen criminal gangs that support the Ministry of State Security.
[00:00:04]  Not only are they stealing technologies, but they're actually doing denial of service attacks and ransomware attacks and actually doing criminal activities in addition to that.
[00:00:13]  You have a criminal state.
[00:00:15]  It's simply the bottom line.
[00:00:16]  You have a criminal state that supports these to degrade the United States and to further the greatest transfer of wealth in history.
[00:00:26]  There is also a concerted effort.
[00:00:29]  Through the state-owned enterprises, right?
[00:00:32]  China had 300,000.
[00:00:35]  Now they have about 150,000 state-owned enterprises, 50,000 of which are at the central government level.
[00:00:41]  About 112 are really large-scale, several hundred thousand employees.
[00:00:45]  And those entities are controlled, and they do some collection activities, theft of technology in particular, economic espionage.
[00:00:55]  On behalf of the CCP.
[00:00:57]  So you have that entire structure, which would be unheard of in free democracies.
[00:01:02]  You have universities in the same way, collecting on behalf of the CCP.
[00:01:07]  I mean, we've seen this.
[00:01:08]  I have over 50 some odd number of universities have been identified in court documents in economic espionage cases.
[00:01:16]  So we see this at the corporate structure.
[00:01:18]  We see this at the university structure.
[00:01:20]  We see it in China's intelligence agencies.
[00:01:24]  So this is what I mean by a strategic threat.
[00:01:26]  It's a threat on a scale far vaster than any of our services, our counterintelligence, our security services are used to dealing with.