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Capvision accused of abetting foreign spy services
By Jiang Chenglong | chinadaily.com.cn
Updated: May 9, 2023
A surveillance camera is seen in front of an office building, where the office of Capvision is located, in Shanghai, China, May 9, 2023. [Photo/Agencies]Chinese state security authorities have launched an investigation into Capvision, a leading Chinese consulting firm, on charges that it induced Chinese experts in key fields, including the military and high technology, to provide intelligence to foreign intelligence forces, becoming complicit, the China Media Group reported.
According to a TV program aired on Monday, state security police found that a number of overseas organizations with complicated backgrounds that obscured their origin, have been attempting to steal state secrets and key intelligence by making use of domestic consulting companies, which have allegedly violated the law in pursuit of economic gain.
Founded in 2008, Capvision is a leading consulting company that in its own words, offers "rapid, accurate and efficient expert knowledge" to major financial institutions, consulting companies and multinational enterprises, according to its official website.
As stated on the Shanghai-headquartered firm's introduction, its main competitive advantage is that it provides clients with specialized industry knowledge via its network of 500,000 experts. Capvision also has offices in Hong Kong, New York, Malaysia and Singapore.
With more than 1,000 clients worldwide, and the majority of Capvision's business is expert consultation mainly conducted by phone, according a member of Shanghai's national security police, who was quoted in the television report.
Staff at the company said they were able to tap into such a large number of experts, professionals and scholars via public networking through avenues such as resumes and recommendations.
However, the report said that staff were in fact targeting influential experts in vital fields including domestic policy research, national defense, finance and currency, high technology, energy and resources, and medicine and health.
Experts agreeing to provide consultation had to sign contracts containing a disclaimer that required them to take responsibility for the issue of confidentiality, and to agree to bear any legal consequences of their consultation themselves.
Despite this, attracted by remuneration offered by Capvision, which they believed to be a regulated, law-abiding company, some experts let down their guards, and divulged sensitive information and even state secrets and intelligence in the course of providing foreign consulting services, the national security police in Shanghai said.
They stated that in addition, Capvision not only encouraged experts in key fields to disclose confidential information during consultations, but also failed to inform them of the real identity of clients in the name of privacy.
In pursuit of market share and profit, some consulting companies have ignored national security to scam experts and scholars in key and sensitive industries into giving away internal secrets, greatly harming China's industrial development and economic security, according to the TV report, adding that as a result, the firms have become complicit with foreign intelligence agencies in helping them spy, buy off experts and obtain state secrets and intelligence.
Welp. TSMC is screwed unless PLA could seize it within 48 hours.
Why is the defense minister saying this? Shouldn't their Head of state or Foreign affairs department strongly condemn such plans or alternatively beg and grovel for their overlord not to do it? This is a political problem, not a military one, as Taiwan has zero military means of stopping it from happening.
I shall quote Henry Kissinger again: "To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal."
I know this is a joke comment but I believe TSMC will play zero role in war planning, the best way to minimize damage to TSMC is to....not try to seize it at all, trying to fight over something so delicate is the quickest way to destroy it.
It is neither a military nor a political center of gravity, seizing it will have no effect on victory.
Of course, there's a good chance that US black ops or Taiwanese saboteurs will try to destroy it once they saw the day is lost, but they are just as likely to destroy it once they realize that they couldn't hold it, if not by ground teams, then by airstrikes or artillery.
It quoted a former Chinese defence corporation worker as saying that in a call with a Capvision client, he was asked about the number of an unspecified model of Chinese fighter jet.
The worker, identified only by his surname Lei, was interviewed in detention on suspicion of providing state secrets to overseas entities.
The Jiangsu TV report said confidential information was at stake in some consulting projects by foreign companies.
“When undertaking foreign-related consulting projects, these consulting and due diligence companies frequently contacted people with confidential information in organs of my party and government, and important national defence science and technology industries,” an unnamed police officer from Suzhou’s state security bureau said.
“They give great compensation to hire industry consultants to illegally access various types of sensitive data in China, posing a major risk to our national security.”
China should formally accuse the US of genocide and continued occupation of Native Americans.
The investigation is much more widespread than most media has reported. Gathering and leaking sensitive data to foreign entities seem to be the reason why all these consulting firms got investigated. It looks like the US got its information from these consulting firms then later used the information to target many high tech and government related entities in China with sanctions.
The ruling Communist Party’s top legal body paints a different picture. On Tuesday, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission shared a report claiming the company had accepted consulting projects from overseas companies with close ties to foreign governments, and military and intelligence agencies. The report cited a police officer saying Capvision also accepted consulting projects in sensitive fields such as national defense and cutting-edge technology — both areas where Washington has imposed trade restrictions on China in recent months.
3. What are authorities investigating?
The company has been accused of leaking state secrets, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Furthermore, one Shanghai-based security official told CCTV it has no compliance structure for managing its national security risks. China last month passed a vague new counter-espionage law that expanded the list of activities that could be considered spying and what is deemed a national security risk. Security officials have raided the company’s Suzhou branch and seized items, according to a Monday report. That raid was part of a synchronized nationwide probe in cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, according to state media. Capvision has offices in those cities, but it wasn’t clear if they had been raided.
The ruling Communist Party’s top legal body paints a different picture. On Tuesday, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission shared a report claiming the company had accepted consulting projects from overseas companies with close ties to foreign governments, and military and intelligence agencies. The report cited a police officer saying Capvision also accepted consulting projects in sensitive fields such as national defense and cutting-edge technology — both areas where Washington has imposed trade restrictions on China in recent months.
3. What are authorities investigating?
The company has been accused of leaking state secrets, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Furthermore, one Shanghai-based security official told CCTV it has no compliance structure for managing its national security risks. China last month passed a vague new counter-espionage law that expanded the list of activities that could be considered spying and what is deemed a national security risk. Security officials have raided the company’s Suzhou branch and seized items, according to a Monday report. That raid was part of a synchronized nationwide probe in cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, according to state media. Capvision has offices in those cities, but it wasn’t clear if they had been raided.
Instead of honoring Asian American achievements, Brandon managed to disrespect them by his ching chong gaffe.
No wonder the Pentagon and CIA and by extension the USG is losing credibility fast. Jai Hind.