China, in response to CIA videos, warns of measures against 'infiltration, sabotage'

BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned connected Tuesday it would instrumentality indispensable measures to ace down connected "infiltration and sabotage activities of overseas anti-China forces", days aft the CIA released videos aimed astatine enticing Chinese officials to leak secrets to the U.S.

The U.S. quality bureau past week posted 2 abbreviated Chinese-language videos to its societal media accounts depicting fictional scenes successful which a elder Chinese authoritative and a much inferior authorities idiosyncratic with entree to classified accusation go disillusioned with China's strategy and attack the CIA.

A Chinese overseas ministry spokesperson called the videos a "damning confession" of the CIA's efforts successful "stealing" different countries' secrets.

"The U.S. not lone maliciously smears and attacks China, but besides blatantly deceives and lures Chinese unit to crook to its side, and adjacent straight targets Chinese authorities officials," spokesperson Lin Jian told a regular property briefing erstwhile asked astir the videos.

"This is simply a superior usurpation of China's nationalist interests and a bare governmental provocation."

Beijing's informing came arsenic the 2 countries vow to measurement up counterintelligence efforts amid communal accusations of espionage.

Last month, China's authorities information ministry publicised the lawsuit of a authorities worker selling authorities secrets, secretly signaling interior meetings and stealing confidential files, aft reaching retired to a overseas spy bureau via email.

The worker was caught earlier she could permission the country, the ministry said successful a video posted to its societal media account. It did not sanction the overseas quality agency.

In October, the CIA launched a thrust to enlistee caller informants successful China, Iran and North Korea by posting instructions online connected however to securely interaction the agency, pursuing what it said was palmy efforts to enlist Russians.

Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are known wrong the U.S. quality assemblage arsenic "hard targets" - countries whose governments are hard to penetrate.

(Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Raju Gopalakrishnan)