The head of Australia’s national security agency has accused China of intellectual property (IP) theft on a colossal scale, in what was a rare public reprimand of the communist state backed by other leading intelligence organisations from Western democracies.
ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess criticised the Chinese government for undertaking espionage in Australia through the “most sustained” approach ever witnessed, stressing how it not just posed an onshore security risk but also a much larger one globally.
ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess has criticised the Chinese government for undertaking espionage in Australia through the “most sustained” approach ever witnessed. Picture: ABC News FBI director Christopher Wray seconded the remarks, saying in the United States, investigations related to IP theft from China were instigated roughly every 12 hours.is hosting the leaders of the Five Eyes intelligence partnership â the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand â in a first-ever Emerging Technology and Securing Innovation Security Summit in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley.
He said it involved a visiting professor from China, recruited by the communist state, who came to Australia with a “shopping list of intelligence requirements” to spy on IP through a doctorate degree he was teaching at university. Mr Burgess is confident, however, the powerful Five Eyes alliance will be able to “meet and defeat this threat” together, “because we have a weapon that others do not. The power of partnerships.”
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