DNI Pulte @DNIPulte - Redacted Document: DECLASSIFIED BY COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT WARRINGTON ON 10 July 2026 Published online on 01 July 2020 China: Cyber Activities Probably Prelude to Election Espionage China is probing the presidential campaign for opportunities to tailor collection and gather insight on policy positions on US-Chinese issues. US policy on China is a longstanding high collection priority for Beijing, and Chinese cyber actors have conducted such activity in every US presidential election campaign since at least 2008, according to open-source reporting. Since the private sector as APT31- 2018, Chinese cyber actors known in -have targeted the personal e-mail accounts of senior US leadership, including officials in the Executive Office of the President and high-ranking officials in multiple Executive Branch organizations, Congress, and the federal judiciary, Since 2017, a separate