Chinese-American professor and his wife to be expelled from Singapore
Huang Jing and Shirley Yang accused of collaborating with foreign intelligence agents, government statement says
A Chinese-American professor and his wife will be expelled from Singapore for collaborating with foreign intelligence agents, according to a statement from the city-state’s home affairs ministry.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday night that it had no knowledge of the incident.
Huang Jing – director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) and a former fellow at the Brookings Institution – and his wife will be permanently banned from re-entering the country, the statement released on Friday, carried by Singaporean media, said.
It said Huang’s permanent residency status would be revoked and his wife Shirley Yang Xiuping had been declared a “prohibited immigrant”.
Huang interacted with intelligence organisations and agents of a foreign country, it said, and cooperated with them to influence the Singaporean government’s foreign policy and public opinion.
Huang used his senior position to “deliberately and covertly advance the agenda of a foreign country at Singapore’s expense”, it said.