The political and diplomatic tussle between China and the U.S. does not seem to end and there are new developments almost every week. In the latest development, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted 5 people, accusing them of targeting Chinese dissidents based in the U.S. The DOJ accused the five people of attempting ...
The FBI arrested a professor at one of America’s top universities for hiding China links over his work for the Chinese communist government. Gang Chen, 56, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was arrested by federal agents and charged with grant fraud on January 14, according to a U.S. Department of Justice ...
Originally, officials denied that Qian Weiping’s arrest, which dates back to 2019, was related to espionage. However, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy based in Hong Kong confirmed rumors that five more people had been arrested in an espionage case involving a Chinese military scientist and former Major General Qian Weiping. The Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily reported ...
On December 3, Zaosong Zheng, a Harvard Chinese scholar and former researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) affiliated with Harvard University, pleaded guilty in U.S. Federal court in Boston to lying to customs officials about stealing 21 biological research samples. In his guilty plea, Zheng agreed to leave the U.S. after a sentencing ...
More than 1,000 Chinese researchers linked to the Chinese military left the U.S. after the arrest of no more than six members of China’s People’s Liberation Army who were studying in the U.S., a top American national security official has said. William Evanina, the director of the United States National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said ...
The Chinese government is using LinkedIn profiles to hire spies, says James Olson, who has spent 30 years working for the CIA and is presently a professor at Texas A&M University. In addition, Chinese agents are also targeting foreign students as potential spies. LinkedIn espionage Social media platforms like LinkedIn provide detailed professional histories and ...
A former British spy is being investigated by intelligence agencies in the UK and Belgium on suspicion that he might have collaborated with the Chinese regime. The ex-spy, Fraser Cameron, currently runs a Brussels-based think-tank called the EU-Asia Center. Ex-spy Cameron working for China Cameron worked for MI6 in the early 1990s, after which he ...
Last year, a Chinese spy’s attempt to gain control of an Australian biotech company and infiltrate the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO) building came to light. The spy, Brian Chen, was also involved in expanding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) influence in Australian politics. The spy’s infiltration Imunexus is an Australian company that researches ...
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, a U.S. citizen living in Hawaii, was recently arrested by the Justice Department and charged with spying and selling classified U.S. secrets to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The 67-year-old worked as an officer of the CIA between 1982 and 1989. Spying for the CCP According to court reports, Ma started ...
A Singapore national recently pleaded guilty to charges of operating illegally as a foreign agent in the U.S. Yeo Jun Wei Dickson, a former student from the National University of Singapore (NUS), apparently acted on behalf of Chinese intelligence as a Chinese spy to collect sensitive information about the American government and military. Recruitment and ...