2026-08-05T10:03:11.953Z / 路透社
综述
- FBI与两大长期美国对手建立合作关系
- 帕特尔称其为“全新且充满活力的伙伴关系”
- 批评者担忧美国面临反情报风险
- FBI与中方执法人员开展交流
- 美中联合突袭迪拜网络诈骗团伙
Aug 5 (路透社) – 联邦调查局（FBI）局长卡什·帕特尔表示，过去一年来，他已与中国和俄罗斯这两大长期美国对手建立新的执法伙伴关系，以期在打击包括芬太尼、网络诈骗和儿童性剥削在内的跨国犯罪方面争取盟友。
这些合作关系涉及人员交流：中国执法官员访问美国，FBI探员前往中国共同办案并共享情报。此外，根据该安排，FBI与中方执法人员还开展了联合突袭和逮捕行动。
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据FBI官员透露，帕特尔于7月底结束北京之行，初步计划于10月访问俄罗斯。
在接受路透社独家采访时，帕特尔将FBI与他所谓的“非传统伙伴”的合作描述为有选择性的，仅限于特定类型的跨国犯罪，例如针对美国人的全球儿童色情网络和网络诈骗中心。
这些内部称为“工作组”的合作关系与过去的做法大相径庭，引发了 broader 反情报界的担忧：与在全球范围内从经济和军事上破坏美国的威权政权共享敏感的国内安全信息，会带来风险。
FBI称，今年5月，FBI、中国公安部与迪拜警方联合开展“美元行动”（Operation Sand Dollar），突袭了迪拜的一个网络诈骗中心，共逮捕300人、缴获3亿美元资金并解救数千名被贩运劳工。据中国官方媒体报道，至少有一名被控“严重暴力犯罪”的中国境内嫌疑人被遣返回美国。
长期以来，美国官员一直将俄罗斯和中国视为犯罪输出国，而非打击犯罪的潜在盟友，更不用说将其视为针对全球美国利益的间谍活动来源。
由唐纳德·特朗普总统任命的帕特尔表示，此类风险是可控的。
“这两者都是全新且充满活力的伙伴关系，我们非常清楚它们在诸多问题上的对抗性立场，”帕特尔说，“它们不会停止对抗，但如果我们能为美国取得胜利，那么我们就必须参与其中。”
FBI与中国开展警务人员交流
当前的合作关系始于2025年5月特朗普访华，随后帕特尔两次访华。帕特尔表示，合作已扩展至四个工作组：网络诈骗、针对儿童的暴力犯罪、禁毒和逃犯特别工作组。
作为合作的一部分，帕特尔邀请中国公安部官员访问美国境内的多个FBI设施，共享情报和调查信息。
“每个月，他们都会派遣实务级别的公安部官员前来，次月我们就会派人前往，”帕特尔说，“他们每天都与我们沟通，这也是前所未有的。”
当被问及联合执法行动时，中国驻华盛顿大使馆发言人表示：“我们始终认为对话与谈判是正确的前进方向，军事手段无法解决问题。”
帕特尔表示，信息交流的范围狭窄，仅限于四类跨国犯罪，且情报共享是双向互惠的。帕特尔称，这些新的FBI合作伙伴不会取代美国的长期盟友，例如与加拿大、澳大利亚、英国和新西兰组成的“五眼联盟”情报伙伴关系。
“五眼联盟将永远是我们最重要的情报关系。没人试图取代这一点，”帕特尔说，“与军事和传统情报机构不同，我们在执法领域拥有独特的渠道推动这种动态变化，这是一项非政治化的任务。”
在上个月的亚洲之行中，帕特尔会见了中国公安部部长王小洪和副部长徐大彤，深化了中国官方媒体所称的针对一系列犯罪活动的“务实合作”。
“我们的敌人，就是敌人”
美国执法部门与全球主要对手的合作与过去截然不同，这反映了特朗普对中国国家主席习近平和俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京的个人外交风格。
“中国和俄罗斯就是我们的敌人，就是这样，”2024年退休的前FBI高级特工杰夫·克罗克说，“他们正积极试图从身体、经济和军事上伤害我们的国家。”
克罗克表示，允许中国官员接触美国情报界、外交人员以及美国政府设施和承包商，存在巨大风险。他说，中俄特工将利用任何进入美国设施的机会进行渗透。
“所以这为他们提供了绝佳的掩护，”克罗克说。
帕特尔表示，所有外国访客进入FBI设施时，都会启动反情报行动和反制措施。三名前FBI雇员告诉路透社，这通常涉及电子和物理监控，尤其是针对被视为美国最危险对手国家的人员。
“我们清楚知道谁会来这里，我们会对他们进行背景审查，”帕特尔说。
克里姆林宫和俄罗斯驻华盛顿大使馆未立即回应置评请求。
幕后合作
帕特尔表示，FBI与俄罗斯开展了数月的幕后执法合作，针对暴力犯罪网络。
“这种事不是一蹴而就的，”帕特尔说，“我们已经为此努力了15个月。”
路透社查看的一份内部备忘录称，今年FBI与中国公安部的合作在多起针对中国制药企业的行动中发挥了作用。
备忘录称，此举导致9人被捕、两家化学品生产设施和三个相关网站被关闭，并缴获了“原本很可能运往美国”的芬太尼前体化学品。备忘录未指明这些逮捕和缉获行动发生在何处。
华盛顿布鲁金斯学会外交政策高级研究员万达·费尔巴布-布朗表示，自2022年冬季以来，美国的芬太尼过量死亡人数一直在迅速下降，这可能得益于与中国的合作以及纳洛酮这种救命药物广泛普及等其他因素。
“可能那些原本易受影响的人已经死了，”费尔巴布-布朗说。
“我认为这种合作是有用的，应该加以推动，并且在一定程度上起到了作用，”费尔巴布-布朗在谈及美国过量死亡人数下降时表示，“但实际影响程度很难知晓，其中涉及诸多复杂因素。”
儿童色情团伙
根据FBI备忘录，今年6月，中国执法部门与FBI内布拉斯加州奥马哈分局合作，捣毁了一个跨国儿童色情材料网络，行动共逮捕16名嫌疑人。
此次合作范围扩大之际，美中两国之间多年来一直存在深刻猜忌：美国指责中国对生产芬太尼所需的前体化学品生产视而不见，而中国当局则因美国前众议院议长南希·佩洛西2022年访问台湾等政治分歧终止了合作。
美国国务卿马可·卢比奥对中方合作持谨慎态度。上个月访问菲律宾期间，卢比奥称与中国在芬太尼前体问题上的合作“仍在推进中”。
“我认为我们在这方面取得了一些进展，但尚未完全达到我们的目标，”卢比奥告诉记者。
帕特尔表示，用于与中国和俄罗斯合作的模式，可以应用于针对每个国家量身定制的其他非传统情报共享伙伴关系。
“我们已经与中国做到了这一点，”帕特尔说，“当所有人都说‘别这么做’‘你做不到’的时候，这证明我们几乎可以与任何人达成合作。”
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Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia
2026-08-05T10:03:11.953Z / Reuters
Summary
FBI opens partnerships with two long-time US rivals
Patel hails them as ‘new and dynamic relationships’
Critics wary about counterintelligence risks for US
FBI has exchanged personnel with Chinese counterparts
US and China joined in raid of Dubai cyber scam network
Aug 5 (Reuters) – FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational crime including fentanyl, cyber fraud and child sexual exploitation.
The partnerships have involved personnel exchanges in which Chinese law enforcement officials have visited the United States and FBI agents have traveled to China to work on cases together and share intelligence. Separately, FBI and Chinese officers have carried out joint raids and arrests under the arrangement.
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Patel returned from a trip to Beijing in late July, and a similar trip to Russia has been tentatively planned for October, according to FBI officials.
In exclusive interviews with Reuters, Patel described the FBI’s initiatives with what he called “non-traditional partners” as selective and limited to specific types of transnational crimes such as global child pornography networks and cyber scam centers that prey on Americans.
The partnerships, known internally as “working groups,” represent a major break with the past and have raised concerns within the broader counterintelligence community about the risks posed by sharing sensitive domestic security information with authoritarian regimes working to undermine the United States economically and militarily around the world.
In May, the FBI, China’s Ministry of Public Security and Dubai police worked together in “Operation Sand Dollar,” a major raid on a cyber scam center in Dubai that led to 300 arrests, $300 million seized and thousands of trafficked workers freed, the FBI said. In at least one case, a suspect inside China who was accused of “serious violent crimes” was repatriated to the United States, according to Chinese state media.
U.S. officials have long portrayed Russia and China as exporters of crime instead of potential allies in combating it, not to mention sources of espionage aimed at American interests worldwide.
Patel, appointed by President Donald Trump, said such risks can be managed.
“They are both new and dynamic relationships, and we are extremely mindful of their adversarial approach on many matters,” Patel said. “They are not going to stop, but if we can go and have wins for America, then we must engage.”
FBI, CHINA EXCHANGE POLICE OFFICIALS
The current relationship began with Trump’s visit to China in May 2025 and was followed by two trips by Patel to China. Patel said the cooperation has expanded across four working groups: cyber fraud, violent crimes against children, counternarcotics and a fugitive task force.
As part of the partnership, Patel has brought officials from China’s Ministry of Public Security, or MPS, to multiple FBI facilities in the United States to share intelligence and investigative information.
“Every month, they send their working-level MPS officers here, and the following month we go there,” Patel said. “They are speaking with us daily, which has also never happened before.”
Asked about joint law enforcement operations, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said, “We have always believed that dialogue and negotiation are the right way forward, and that military means offer no solution.”
Patel said information exchanges are narrow in scope and limited to the four types of transnational crime where intelligence sharing is reciprocal. Patel said these new FBI partners would not replace longtime U.S. allies such as the “Five Eyes” intelligence partnership with Canada, Australia, Britain and New Zealand.
“Five Eyes will always be our most important intelligence relationship. No one is trying to replace that,” Patel said. “Unlike military and traditional intelligence agencies, we have a unique lane to drive this dynamic change with law enforcement, which is an apolitical mission.”
During his trip to Asia last month, Patel met with Chinese Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong and Vice Minister Xu Datong to deepen what Chinese state media described as “practical cooperation” on a range of criminal activities.
‘OUR ENEMIES, PERIOD’
The cooperation between U.S. law enforcement and leading global adversaries is a major break from the past, and reflects Trump’s personal approach to diplomacy with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“China and Russia are our enemies, period,” said Jeff Crocker, a former FBI supervisory agent who retired in 2024. “They are actively trying to harm our country physically, economically and militarily.”
Crocker said there are enormous risks related to giving Chinese officials access to the American intelligence community, diplomatic personnel and U.S. government facilities and contractors. Chinese and Russian agents would use any access to U.S. facilities as an opportunity to infiltrate them, Crocker said.
“So this is great cover for them,” Crocker said.
Patel said counterintelligence operations and countermeasures are deployed for any foreign visitor to FBI facilities. Three former FBI employees told Reuters this usually involves electronic and physical surveillance, particularly for people from countries considered the most dangerous U.S. adversaries.
“We know exactly who is coming here, and we vet them,” Patel said.
The Kremlin and the Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
BEHIND-THE-SCENES COLLABORATION
Patel said there have been months of behind-the-scenes law enforcement collaboration with Russia targeting violent criminal networks.
“This stuff doesn’t happen overnight,” Patel said. “We’ve been at this for 15 months.”
An internal memo viewed by Reuters credited the FBI’s cooperation with China’s Ministry of Public Security in multiple operations against Chinese pharmaceutical companies this year.
The memo said this led to the arrests of nine people, the shutdown of two chemical production facilities and three associated websites, and the seizure of fentanyl precursor chemicals “likely otherwise destined for the United States.” The memo did not specify where these arrests and seizures occurred.
Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, said fentanyl overdoses have been declining rapidly in the United States since the winter of 2022, likely due to cooperation with China and other factors such as the wide availability of the life-saving drug Naloxone.
“It could be that the people who were already vulnerable had already died,” Felbab-Brown said.
“I think that the cooperation is useful, should be fostered, and that it contributed to some extent,” Felbab-Brown said, referring to the decline in U.S. overdoses. “But how much is really hard to know, and there are a lot of complexities to it.”
A CHILD ABUSE RING
Chinese law enforcement worked with the FBI’s field office in Omaha, Nebraska, to take down a multinational child sexual abuse materials network in June, an operation that included the arrests of 16 suspects, according to the FBI memo.
The expanding cooperation comes after years of deep suspicion between the United States, which has accused China of turning a blind eye to its production of the precursor chemicals required to manufacture fentanyl, and Chinese authorities, who ended cooperation due to political disagreements such as former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 2022 visit to Taiwan.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a cautious assessment of Chinese cooperation. During a visit to the Philippines last month, Rubio called cooperation with China on fentanyl precursors “a work in progress.”
“I think we’ve made some progress on that front, but not entirely where we need to be,” Rubio told reporters.
Patel said the playbook that is used to work with China and Russia could be applied to other non-traditional intelligence-sharing partnerships tailored to each country.
“The fact that we did it with China,” Patel said, “when everyone said, ‘Don’t do it,’ and, ‘You can’t do it,’ shows what we can do with almost anyone.”
Reporting by Jana Winter in New York; Additional reporting from Simon Lewis, Laura Gottesdiener and Kristina Cooke; Editing by Michael Learmonth and Will Dunham