Pamir's Alan Kohler joins CBS News to discuss the threat of espionage from China

Earlier this month, the intelligence leaders from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada (Five Eyes) made their first joint statement in 90 years about the multiple and unprecedented threats China poses to the rest of the world’s economies and security.

CBS interviewed all five Eyes as well as Alan Kohler, President of Pamir and former head of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division.

During the interview FBI Director, Christopher Wray, said “China is the defining threat of this era. When people talk about stealing innovation or IP that’s a mainstream problem it means American jobs, American families, American livelihoods”.

Alan said during the interview that to have all five intelligence heads make a joint statement shows how significant the threat from China really is and that "China wants to be the world’s only super power by 2049 and the amount of resources they can put towards achieving this is massive. So when they steal information they have a massive economy that can take advantage of this”.

He also advised that "Companies and people need to educate themselves about the threats from China and what is happening to them.  China has a list of technologies it wants to dominate the world in and if your technology is on that you need to take steps to protect your people, information and IP because China has put a big bullseye on it”.

We highly recommend spending five minutes of your time watching the interviews here: 

To help protect your business from current and imminent threats from China, please contact Pamir Consulting’s team of experts.