FBI raises alarm over 'inflection point' in transnational repression threats
It comes after the DOJ accused China of harassing dissidents inside the U.S. Just a day after the Justice Department announced a series of indictments targeting the Chinese government's alleged efforts to intimidate dissidents living in the U.S., senior FBI officials on Wednesday raised alarm about what they described as an " inflection point " in authoritarian regimes seeking to engage in similar acts of so-called " transnational repression " in America and other countries. "We are really trying to emphasize this moment in time because ... we have really seen an inflection point in the tactics and tools and the level of risk and the level of threat that has changed over the past few years," a senior FBI counterintelligence official said in a background call with reporters. The officials pointed to what they said were a number of recent cases with countries like China and Iran engaging in increasingly brazen attempts to intimidate or harass critics ...