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er of the century. —VLADIMIR PUTIN I THE FIRST INVASION of a European country since the end of the Cold War, Russian military forces moved into the Crimea and other parts of eastern Ukraine in February and March 2014. Unlike with previous Russian troop movements, such as those into Poland, Hungary, Czec
ntatives set up a special bipartisan investiga- tive unit called the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China. Based on the intelligence amassed by the NSA, the CIA, and other intelligence services, it concluded in its report that the Chinese intel- ligence s
r Snowden reached Moscow. For example, there were indications that the NSA had lost part of its capabilities to follow Russian troop movements in the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. U.S. intelligence officials even went so far as to suggest, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal that “ Russian plan
S Congress set up a special bipartisan investigative unit called the “Select Committee on National Security and Military and Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China.” Based on the intelligence amassed by the NSA, CIA and other intelligence services, it concluded in its report that the Chinese intelligence service
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all sample of similar claims or conjec- tures that have made their way into Russian news cov- erage, especially in the wake of Moscow's occupation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine. They stand as areminder that under Vladimir Putin, the Russian media environment has been transformed from one marke
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019249 →ed domestic human rights organizations as “foreign agents” for accepting international funding, and began blacklisting foreign NGOs as “undesirable.” Chi- na has increased regulatory and legal pressure on foreign companies, bullied foreign countries into repatriating Chinese political refugees, significant
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t was under Soviet domination, but to integrate it with the PRC through a "voluntary" referendum, just as the Russians engineered the assimilation of Crimea in 2014. This was Mao Tse-tung's prophecy and intent once China could establish parity or surpass Soviet military and economic might.iii As the world
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