Chinese Recruiting Ethnic Chinese

In recruitment of spies the Chinese are showing their preference for dealing with ethic Chinese who have come to the US to live and work.  In the latest example, Ji Chaoqun, there is something really rotten.  Ji was in the US since 2013 but had a position in the Army Reserve.  To get into the reserves, he must have had a security clearance, which requires a background check.  What kind of background gives a security clearance to a Chinese national with less than 5 years in the United States?  Are we crazy? Even a national agency check should have turned up the fact that he was not in the US very long and came from China.  The Army needs to get its collective act together.

Ji was looking for the type of person the Chinese have used to spy - people who work in tech businesses in the US (in this case, Defense contractors), have relatives or friends still living in China, and will talk about what they do in those contractor facilities.  All eight of the people in those dossiers were Chinese nationals who came to the US and got US citizenship, then were allowed to work in Defense contractor facilities.  See a pattern here?  He prepared dossiers on these individuals and passed them to Chinese intelligence.  Since the Chinese stole all the security clearance records from the US, they have other background they can look at to find friends, coworkers, bosses, types of work performed, and locations of that work.  They can pick out the best ones and work from there.

Two things: our security clearance process is seriously lacking when a person in this country for 5 years can get access to defense workplaces and have access to sensitive programs;  and two, there seems to be a lot of this going on.  Policy changes - in defense industries and government - need to be made to stop the Chinese from studying in the US, getting jobs in the US, then selling or stealing technology that the Chinese want.  I hope they are not here on HB1 visas.  All that crying from US tech industries will seem hollow when this is investigated and stopped.