CIA carries out slim new videos that aim to recruit Chinese officials

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Cnn
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The CIA has released two new videos that aim to spy on Chinese civil servants for the United States, and to call for the disappointment within the huge bureaucracy of China and the fear of the tireless corruption trail of leader Xi Jinping.

The slim -produced clips, which were made in Mandarin with Chinese subtitles, are the recent effort of the US espionage agency to increase the secret services in China, which are viewed by successive administrations as the best strategic rival and military threat to America.

China's secret service agency has also launched a very public campaign on social media in the past two years in order to warn its citizens of spying on foreign nations and pay attention to espionage attempts.

John Ratcliffe, the director of the CIA, has undertaken to make China's threat to a top priority, and swors with the focus of the agency on Beijing.

Last October, the CIA published a text video with step-by-step instructions in Chinese how to safely contact the agency online. It was part of a broader drive to recruit new informants in China, Iran and North Korea.

The latest videos published on the CIA social media accounts are much slimmer than the production of last year. Every longer length of more than 2 minutes receives it in the style of mini films, complete with rays of action, narrative and exciting background music.

A video aims to appeal high -ranking civil servants to the Communist Party who live in constant fear of lifting XIS endless action against corruption and infidelity. The campaign has punished millions of high -flying civil servants and low -flying cadres, with government agencies that shake military and state companies.

“When I get up in the party, I watch the shoes worn over me. But now I find that my fate is as precarious as hers,” says the narrator when a Chinese official and his wife go into a wasteful dinner with Chinese government agents who adapt him.

“It is all too often that someone can suddenly disappear without trace. I am the most feared that my family's fate is bound to me. I have to prepare an escape route,” he says, while the camera swings at two empty seats at the dining table.

The other video refers to a growing feeling of disappointment with young people in China. When the economy slows down, some realize that the life of the privileged, rich and powerful armor remains, no matter how hard or long they work.

It shows a young government employee who is disappointed by his career and his life while he takes care of a boss who lives a life in luxury, which is equipped in tailor -made suits and expensive watches.

He takes part in strenuous political self-criticism sessions, eats lean lunch, stays late in government reports and returns to a small apartment in which he lives with his parents.

“Even at a young age, the party taught us that as long as we were busy the path of our leaders, we would have a brilliant future. The sky, which should be participated by everyone, is now only enjoyed by a few, which leaves no choice to me than to make my own way,” he says. “I refused to lie flat!”

Both videos end with scenes from the protagonists who contact the CIA on the agency's website: The senior party officer is relieved that his family, no matter what the future has for him, can still enjoy a good life. The young government employee is happy about the first step to build his own dream.

The authorities in China, which are in the middle of a five-day vacation, did not respond to the CIA videos. CNN has contacted the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get a comment.

The CIA is confident that the videos of China's “big firewall” of the Internet censorship penetrate and reach the intended audience, Reuters reported.

“If it doesn't work, we would no longer make videos,” a CIA officer told Reuters and added that China was the most important intelligence of the agency in a “really generational competition” between the USA and China.

On Friday afternoon, China's state -controlled media did not report the videos, although they only attributed limited attention to the country's highly regulated social media. Some posts mentioned the videos in writing, with a screenshots being exchanged. But the videos themselves have not been widespread so far.

“The content of the videos is absolutely ridiculous, and of course they cannot be posted (here),” read a Weibo contribution with 300 likes.

Another user wrote: “Your ulterior motives are a matter of course. Since the USA cannot shake us with your trade war, try to undermine us from the inside. The imperialists never stop trying against China. We have to stay united!”

The CIA's publicity campaign comes in China, since Beijing's own espionage agency has drastically applied its public profile in recent years. The once notorious Ministry of Health now offers a massive supporter in Chinese social media with almost daily comments, short videos or even comic strips that give the alarm about supposedly ubiquitous threats to the country.

Last year, when the former boss of Bill Burns of the CIA revealed in an article in the Foreign Affair magazine that the agency awarded more financing and resources to the collection of intelligence about China, and recruited more Chinese spokesman, a spokesman for the China State Department thanked him that he all reminded that “American spies infiltrated and infiltratated everything”.