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Recent Examples of counterespionage
Beijing saw it as meddling by a foreign government, heightening tensions following Australia’s ban on Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. from its next-generation 5G mobile network and a tightening of counterespionage safeguards to criminalize foreign meddling in domestic politics.
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Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
After China’s recent adoption of stringent data security and counterespionage legislation, European and American companies are discouraging executives from carrying information out of China even about day-to-day corporate operations.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
On July 1, China enacted a sweeping expansion of a counterespionage law.
—Edward Wong, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
In late April, Beijing tightened its counterespionage law and expanded the list of activities that could be considered spying.
—Laura He, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
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Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
After China’s recent adoption of stringent data security and counterespionage legislation, European and American companies are discouraging executives from carrying information out of China even about day-to-day corporate operations.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
On July 1, China enacted a sweeping expansion of a counterespionage law.
—Edward Wong, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
In late April, Beijing tightened its counterespionage law and expanded the list of activities that could be considered spying.
—Laura He, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterespionage
Noun
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Dennehy is a Marine veteran who joined the bureau in 2002 in the aftermath of 9/11 and worked on counterintelligence cases in New York.—
Ashley Oliver,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
4 Mar. 2025
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This deviation from past practice has created a new kind of counterintelligence predicament, officials and experts have told me.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2025
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Iranian threat groups also deploy ransomware to raise funds and conduct espionage at the same time, while Chinese spy groups often supplement their income with cybercrime, Google said.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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His narrative starts in the 1920s, when Bolsheviks excelled in espionage by drawing on their prior experience with clandestine activities in tsarist Russia—and on the abundance of communist sympathizers in European capitals.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But the main obstruction in that regard had been the reckless Justice Department policy of preventing intelligence agents and criminal investigators from communicating.—
Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
1 Mar. 2025
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Trump said after he was asked about the potential for intelligence cooperation.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Counterespionage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterespionage. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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