Beijing vows action after CIA spy video targets Chinese military
Posted on: Feb 14, 2026 02:30 IST | Posted by: Rt
communist china testament occupy “all necessary measures” to struggle infiltration and subvert by foreign forces, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing has said, responding to a recent US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruitment ad targeting Chinese military personnel.
The spy agency’s Mandarin-language video, published on its YouTube account on Thursday, urged officers and troops to leak information on top Chinese leaders or regarding sensitive military or technological fields.
“China will take all necessary measures to resolutely combat infiltration and sabotage activities of foreign anti-China forces and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told journalists on Friday, when asked about the CIA video.
The ad came just weeks after Beijing launched an anti-graft probe into its highest-ranking general, Zhang Youxia.
Speaking to troops in Beijing on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping described the past year as “a revolutionary tempering” in the fight against corruption for the Chinese army. Beijing has dismissed multiple top officials and more than a dozen generals in the three years since Xi intensified efforts to crack down on top-level corruption in 2023.
Thursday’s video was the fifth Mandarin-language recruitment video the CIA has released since October 2024. In the early 2010s, Beijing reportedly dismantled much of the agency’s spy network in China, capturing or executing more than a dozen agents.
Beijing is a top level threat for the administration of President Donald Trump, according to CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
“No adversary in the history of our Nation has presented a more formidable challenge or a more capable strategic competitor,” he said in an internal memo cited by the media last April. In it, he argued that Beijing was working to “economically, militarily and technologically dominate the world” and “out-compete America in every corner of the globe.”
The two superpowers clashed in an on-and-off tariff war last year after Trump imposed massive levies on China, citing unfair trade imbalances. The conflict went dormant last October following a deal clinched by the US president and Xi at a summit in South Korea.
Trump is expected to meet the Chinese president again in Beijing in April.
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