International Watch ｜ The United States is a veritable ＂monitoring empire＂

　　For a long time, the U.S. government and its related institutions have conducted large-scale and indiscriminate eavesdropping on the world by virtue of their own technological advantages. Whether it is for their own citizens, or for foreign governments, enterprises and individuals, the U.S. eavesdropping has reached the point where it is wanton and lawless, which seriously violates the basic norms of international law and international relations. Facts have repeatedly proved that the United States is a "monitoring empire" that harms the world.

On July 4, a sniper was on alert in Highland Park, Illinois, USA. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Vincent Johnson)

　　In May this year, the Center for Privacy and Technology Law of Georgetown University released a report entitled "tight encirclement in America: Data-Driven Expulsion in the 21st Century". The report reveals that over the years, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau has carefully woven a complex and huge surveillance network, far exceeding its responsibilities as an immigration agency.

　　In fact, the United States began to monitor and review the communications in and out of the United States during World War I and World War II, and its large-scale monitoring practice continued throughout the Cold War. During the American civil rights movement, many Americans were also placed under government surveillance orders. In 1972, the Watergate incident occurred in the United States, and the abuse of power and illegal monitoring led to a political scandal. With the development of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, American surveillance has become institutionalized. Especially after the "9.11" incident, in the name of "national security" and "anti-terrorism", the U.S. government passed the Patriot Act, the Protection of the United States Act, the 2008 Amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other legislation to continuously expand the authority of the security organs.

　　Although Snowden, a former US defense contractor employee, and the Wikileaks website exposed the abuse of surveillance in the United States, the United States was forced to pass a bill in 2015 to end the domestic surveillance project in the United States. However, in fact, the US intelligence agencies and other departments continued to carry out extensive surveillance without authorization.

　　The U.S. government has also been bullying in the name of "national interests" for a long time, conducting pervasive monitoring and network monitoring on other countries and even allies.

　　The United States has a long history of monitoring the world. Whether it is the "black box plan" after World War I, the "clover action" after World War II, or relying on the "echelon system" during the Cold War to obtain global intelligence gathering capabilities; Whether it is gathering allies to form the notorious multinational monitoring organization "Five Eyes Alliance" or creating a back door through the hacker organization "Equation Organization" since the 21st century, it has spied on and invaded hundreds of targets in more than 45 countries and regions around the world … … The U.S. government conducts large-scale, organized and indiscriminate eavesdropping monitoring on foreign governments, enterprises and personnel.

　　In recent years, the global surveillance scandal in the United States has been repeatedly exposed. In 2013, according to Snowden’s confidential documents, the US National Security Agency monitored the phone calls of 35 foreign leaders and tracked and stole mobile phone activity information on a global scale through technical means, collecting as many as 5 billion records every day.

On July 12, 2013, journalists opened a web page in Moscow, Russia, to browse Snowden’s message. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Kehong)

　　The book Nowhere to Hide, published by Glenn greenwald, a former British Guardian reporter, in 2014, lists shocking data: the US National Security Agency had stolen 97 billion emails and 124 billion telephone data remotely within 30 days, including 500 million in Germany, 2.3 billion in Brazil, 13.5 billion in India, 70 million in France and 60 million in Spain. …

　　The United States monitors addiction, and even if it faces criticism from all sides, it has never closed the "monitoring door." In May last year, the media once again broke the news that the United States monitored the leaders of European allies such as Germany, France, Sweden and Norway through Danish intelligence services. French President Macron, then German Chancellor Angela Merkel, then Norwegian Prime Minister solberg and other European politicians have expressed their views, saying that it is "totally unacceptable" for the United States to monitor its allies.

　　The British "Guardian" published in September last year that 20 years after the "9.11" incident, the United States has become a "monitoring country everywhere".

　　The United States uses its hegemony in the political, economic, military and technical fields to abuse monitoring means in an attempt to gain profits in absolute monarch, control the world and the world. In 1994, the National Security Agency intercepted French Thomson — The call between Radio and Telegraph Corporation and Brazil about the monitoring system of Amazon rainforest. In the end, a contract worth $1.4 billion for this monitoring system went to Raytheon. In 2000, James woolsey, a former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, admitted that the CIA had used the intercepted information several years ago to help Boeing seize an important Saudi Arabian order from Airbus Europe. In September 2013, Wired magazine revealed that the National Security Agency had monitored the Brazilian oil company … …

　　However, such a country, which is overbearing and addicted to surveillance, often slanders other countries and repeatedly performs poor tricks of thieves shouting to catch thieves. As the global public opinion is stunned by the US surveillance scandal again and again, the hypocrisy of this "surveillance empire" is increasingly exposed to the world.