I. America conducts widespread secret surveillance across the globe
II. America sets China as the main target of its secret surveillance
III. America's unscrupulous secret surveillance programs
IV. America's global surveillance program hit by worldwide criticism
Foreword
In June Wholesale Buffalo Bills Hats , 2013, the media in the UK, the United States and China's Hong Kong exposed the National Security Agency's clandestine surveillance program, codenamed PRISM, using documents released by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The leaked information provoked shock and outrage. Subsequently, an investigation carried out by various Chinese government departments over several months confirmed the existence of snooping activities directed against China.
As a superpower, America takes advantage of its political Wholesale Carolina Panthers Hats , economic, military and technological hegemony to spy without restraint on other countries, including its allies. America's spying operations have gone far beyond the legal rationale of "anti-terrorism” and have exposed the ugly face of its pursuit of self-interest in complete disregard for moral integrity. These operations flagrantly infringe international laws, seriously impinge on human rights and put global cyber security under threat. As such, they deserved to be rejected and condemned by the whole world.
America's secret surveillance activities directed against China and other parts of the world include:
- Collecting data on nearly 5 billion mobile telephone calls across the globe every day;
- Monitoring German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone for more than 10 years;
- Plugging into the main fiber optic connections between Yahoo's and Google's overseas data centers, and stealing data of hundreds of millions of customers;
- Monitoring mobile phone apps over a period of years to grab personal data;
- Waging large scale cyber-attacks against China, with both Chinese leaders and the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei as targets
Targets of American surveillance include the Chinese government and Chinese leaders Wholesale Chicago Bears Hats , Chinese companies, scientific research institutes, ordinary netizens, and a large number of cell phone users. China sticks to the path of peaceful development, and sees no justification for being targeted by America's secret surveillance agencies under the guise of fighting terrorism.
America must provide explanations for its surveillance activities, cease spying operations that seriously infringe upon human rights, and refrain from causing stress and antagonism in global cyber space.
I. America conducts widespread secret surveillance across the globe
1. America spies on world leaders
At the end of 2013 Wholesale Cincinnati Bengals Hats , The Guardian reported that as many as 35 leaders were on the NSA surveillance list, including United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
On March 29 this year, the German news magazine Der Spiegel, citing a secret document from Snowden, revealed that 122 world leaders were under NSA surveillance in 2009, and the agency maintained a secret database on world leaders which included 300 files on Merkel. The list is in alphabetical order by first name Wholesale Cleveland Browns Hats , starting from "A”, with the then prime minister of Malaysia Abdullah Badawi heading the list and Merkel sitting at the 9th spot in the "A” zone. The last on the list was Yulia Tymoshenko, who was prime minister of Ukraine at the time.
According to Spiegel Online, the NSA spied on UN headquarters and the EU mission to the UN. The surveillance covers politics, the economy and commerce.
In the summer of 2012, the NSA succeeded in breaking into the UN video conferencing system and cracking its coding system. "The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations," Der Spiegel quoted one document as saying.
According to the New York Times Wholesale Dallas Cowboys Hats , in May 2010, when the United Nations Security Council was weighing sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, several members were undecided about how they would vote. The then American ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, asked the NSA for help "so that she could develop a strategy.” The NSA went to work swiftly, drawing up the paperwork to obtain legal approval for spying on the diplomats of four Security Council members.
According to documents leaked by Snowden, the NSA has spied on the missions and embassies of Brazil Wholesale Denver Broncos Hats , Bulgaria, Columbia, the European Union, France, Georgia, Greece, India Wholesale Detroit Lions Hats , Italy, Japan, Mexico, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Venezuela and Vietnam Wholesale Green Bay Packers Hats , among others.
Apart from the UN Headquarters, the information technology infrastructure and servers of the EU and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have also been targeted by US intelligence. When the EU moved its UN office, the US relocated its bugs.
A document released by Snowden to the Guardian reveals that American spies based in North Yorkshire in the UK intercepted the top-secret communications of then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the 2009 G20 Summit. This was just hours after Obama and Medvedev reached a consensus to build mutual trust during their talks.
A classified document dated June 2012 shows that then Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto's emails about naming some cabinet members were being read by the NSA. The US secret service also monitored the communications of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, and used a special software to track her emails and online chat.
Australian spy agency the Defence Signals Directorate worked alongside the NSA in mounting a massive surveillance operation on Indonesia during the UN climate change conference in Bali in 2007.
In June 2010, during the G20 Summit in Toronto, the NSA ran a six-day spying operation out of the US embassy in Canada.
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