Overview
- Reporting on August 5 shows the FBI has formalized structured cooperation with China into four working groups and has begun limited engagement with Russia after months of diplomacy and Patel’s recent trips to Beijing.
- The partnerships include monthly personnel exchanges in which Chinese Ministry of Public Security officers visit FBI facilities and FBI agents travel to China to work cases and share investigative information.
- The FBI says the cooperation produced concrete results such as May’s Operation Sand Dollar — a joint raid that led to about 300 arrests, roughly $300 million seized and thousands of trafficked workers freed.
- An internal FBI memo credited joint work with arrests, the shutdown of two chemical production sites and seizures of fentanyl precursor chemicals likely bound for the United States.
- Counterintelligence and oversight concerns are rising because foreign officials gain access to U.S. facilities; a planned mid‑October trip to Russia is tentative and reporting notes the partnerships have not publicly addressed cryptocurrency enforcement.