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A Chinese national from California has been sentenced to four years in prison for being a communist spy for Beijing. The convict, 56-year-old Edward Peng, used to work as a tour operator in the San Francisco Bay Area. “This case exposed one of the ways that Chinese intelligence officers work to collect classified information from ...
Edward Peng, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested by the police in late September on charges of espionage for the Chinese government. A resident of Hayward, California, Peng has a background in traditional Chinese medicine and mechanical engineering. Caught in espionage After arriving in the U.S. in 2001, Peng worked as an acupuncturist during the ...
The Chinese government seems to be determined to steal sensitive information from the U.S. administration and tech companies, as several cases of U.S. officials colluding with Beijing and spying for personal interests are coming to light. Spying for China 63-year-old Candace Claiborne once used to work for the U.S. State Department. But today, she is ...