Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), one of the leading universities of Belgium, has announced its decision to shut down the Confucius Institute operating on its campus. Funded by the Chinese government, the institute has been mired in controversy after reports that its former head professor was conducting spy operations for Beijing. Closing down the institute VUB’s ...
A former officer with the CIA, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison on charges of spying and conspiring with China against the United States. The 55-year-old pleaded guilty to his crime. His defense lawyers sought jail time of less than 10 years, while prosecutors wanted him to be in ...
The German government will not introduce explicit regulations to exclude Huawei, the Chinese state-and-military-linked telecommunications company, from building Germany’s 5G cellular network infrastructure, according to draft documents and spokespersons. On October 15, the German Bundesnetzagentur, or Federal Network Agency, produced a draft of regulations stating that while companies would have to prove, in the words ...
A few months back, when President Trump announced that he would be banning Huawei from conducting business in the U.S. due to security concerns, the company’s PR went on a propaganda stunt and tried to paint Trump as being afraid of Chinese tech competition. Now, a study that looked at the employees working for Huawei ...
An ex-CIA spy, Kevin Patrick Mallory, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sharing sensitive American intelligence with Chinese agents. Mallory spied on his own country in exchange for just US$25,000. This is one among the many ongoing cases of American intelligence officials colluding with Chinese spies. Betraying the U.S. Mallory was convicted by ...
In 2007, Jerry Chun Shing left the CIA to settle in Hong Kong where he started working for a tobacco company. He was not looking to be involved in espionage. In 2010, Chinese agents appeared and Jerry was soon tempted to betray the country he had served. The betrayal of the CIA The Chinese offered ...
MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has announced that it has fired three employees suspected of being involved in an attempt to steal their research and hand it over to Beijing. All three employees are of Chinese origin. The National Institute of Health (NIH) had contacted 55 medical research centers to warn them about possible ...
A report prepared by a cross-party committee of Canadian MPs has pegged China as one of the most significant national security cyber threats to the country. It accuses Beijing of mobilizing Chinese students and using businesspeople to influence Canada’s politics. The Chinese threat to Canada “China is known globally for its efforts to influence Chinese ...
Rarely does a book release come at such an opportune time as Claws of the Panda. The topic it discusses is currently debated all across the world. In this aspect, the publisher of the book might consider themselves lucky. The book, written by Jonathan Manthorpe, who has almost four decades of international reporting experience, focuses ...
Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has adopted a stance that are no Chinese private companies that are free from Beijing’s control. Hence, FIRB is moving forward to treat all Chinese companies, whether they present themselves as private or not, as state-owned firms. The illusion of Chinese private companies A “private company” is an idea ...
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