Chinese spies are being planted in some of Americas biggest companies to steal sensitive information
China is placing corporate spies into Microsoft and other major American companies posing a huge national security threat DailyMail.
China is placing corporate spies into Microsoft and other major American companies posing a huge national security threat DailyMail.com can reveal.
A new law that went into effect in China on July 1 mandates that foreign companies in the country with 300 or more employees must delegate an employee representative to their Beijing-based affiliates board of directors.
This representative is likely an individual planted by the CCP to be friendly to the socialist government, a House aide told DailyMail.com.
And not only that but the representative could act as both a disciplinary tool and an intelligence-gathering tool for the Chinese Communist Party.
One company that could be subject to the new law is Microsoft, which boasts a robust presence in the communist-run country.
President Joe Biden, left, greets Chinas President President Xi Jinping in Woodside, Calif., Nov, 15, 2023. An aide from the House of Representatives told DailyMail.com that Chinas new restrictions could present a security risk to U.S. companies
Once you’re on the board, you are privy to all sorts of incredibly sensitive information, incredibly sensitive decision-making and you can exert a substantial amount of pressure on the people that are on the ground in China, the source told DailyMail.com.
These employee directors could be activated as needed to accomplish the CCPs clandestine goals, the source continued.
The role on the board would put the presumably CCP-aligned representative in direct contact with important company decision makers and proprietary strategy.
They then could apply pressure to ascertain specific employee data such as addresses and spouse information, the aide added.
A man walks past Microsofts local headquarters in Beijing on July 20, 2021, the day after the US accused Beijing of carrying out the cyber attack on Microsoft and charged four Chinese nationals over the "malicious" hack
The House aide stressed that large multinational American corporations
