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London and Washington seek to counter China espionage threat

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The NewsA spate of high-profile cases involving alleged Chinese spies in the UK and the US this year has cast light on efforts by Beijing to obtain Western military and trade secrets through its diaspora.Counter-espionage efforts are increasingly targeting “non-traditional collectors”: individuals — such as academics, scientists or businesspeople — who are not professional spies but collect sensitive information on behalf of the Chinese governme…

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Bribery, blackmail, and secret deals. These are some of the techniques that China's dictator government uses to attract and detain spies who go to work abroad for the Communist Party. The mission of these people is to carry out surveillance, information gathering and influence operations around the world, describes an article in The Economist magazine reproduced in the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo. The thing is so serious that the United Stat…

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Semafor broke the news in New York, United States on Friday, December 27, 2024.
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