WASHINGTON—Religious freedom advocate Nina Shea didn’t think that she’d ever be a target of the Chinese regime. At the Hudson Institute think tank where she worked, there are more prominent critics of the communist regime like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his former China policy advisor Miles Yu.
But the expert recently found out that she was one of the victims of a global Chinese cyberattack that ran from May. Chinese hackers breached the systems of 25 Microsoft customers, including the U.S. State and Commerce Departments.
Ms. Shea had served seven terms on the bipartisan federal panel U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and now heads the Center for Religious Freedom at Hudson Institute. Her being singled out in her organization as a target in this hacking campaign, she said, reveals that the Chinese regime feels threatened by calls for religious freedom….