The Tubo Kingdom, established by ancient Tibetans between the 7th and 9th centuries, was a formidable power located on the Tibetan Plateau. During the reign of Songtsen Gampo, the kingdom underwent significant reforms, adopting the central administrative and military systems of the Tang Dynasty. These changes bolstered Tubo’s strength, enabling it to expand its territory, ...
The Chinese “spy balloon” shot down over the United States has brought the seemingly strange methods of surveillance and espionage into news headlines. Balloons have long been used for espionage — and not just for surveillance, as appears to be the case with this one. In the 1950s, Soviet soldiers in East Germany often saw ...
Whenever there is warfare, there are espionage activities. The means of carrying out spying on enemy forces have changed over time. Nowadays, advanced technologies and devices are being used for espionage worldwide, including drones and spy satellites. In ancient ages, animals and birds were also deployed for such needs. However, not many people know that ...
Europe has emerged as the new focus for the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) global campaign of political influence. It has in more recent years beefed up the use of its so-called “friendship groups” (youxie) to extend and deepen its influence in Europe. The latest example is the pro-China policy of Jan Zahradil, vice-chair of the ...
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 ...
The U.S. government recently blocked a Chinese entity from buying a San Diego-based fertility clinic due to worries over Chinese access to American medical data. Such data could include intimate personal and biological information, which the U.S. does not want China to get ahold of. Purchasing the fertility clinic would be a security threat The ...
According to a Chinese former diplomat who defected to Australia, the Chinese consulate in Houston that was forced to close in late July was likely burning documents containing details about the communist regime’s covert operations in the United States. On July 22, the Trump administration took the unprecedented move of ordering the Chinese consulate in ...
Mike Burgess, the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), recently stated that many countries were trying very hard to gain influence in Australia. Their espionage activities are targeted at Australian lawmakers, business leaders, government officials, academics, and media figures. The espionage threat “The level of threat we face from foreign espionage and interference ...
With American intelligence agencies warning about the academic threat from Confucius Institutes (CI), there has been a trend of American universities ending their partnerships with the Beijing-backed program. The latest to join the bandwagon is the University of Maryland (UMD), which was the first American university to allow a CI on its campus. Closing Confucius ...
Federal authorities have arrested a Harvard University professor after it came to light that he was secretly receiving payments from the Chinese government for research and had lied about his links to a Chinese-run recruitment program called the “Thousand Talents Program.” The individual, Charles Lieber, is chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology ...
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