https://www.scmp.com/rss/501330/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com For days after his FBI interrogation, Wei Su wondered: where had the microphone been? The agents had played him a scratchy recording of a conversation he’d had with a friend at a restaurant in Eatontown, New Jersey. Both men found it strange when an unasked-for pot of hot tea arrived at their table, but only later did Su, an award-winning scientist for the United States Army’s Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate, form a hypothesis. He thinks the teapot was bugged. On the recording,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3048091/suspected-spying-just-being-chinese-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3048091/suspected-spying-just-being-chinese-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Jan 2020 21:00:09 +0000 The dossier on cancer researcher Wu Xifeng was thick with intrigue, if hardly the stuff of a spy thriller. It contained findings that she’d im­properly shared confi­den­tial information and accepted a half-dozen advisory roles at medical institutions in China. She might have weathered those allegations, but for a larger aspersion that was far more problematic: she was branded an oncological double agent. In recent decades, cancer research has become increasingly globalised, with scientists... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3016267/chinese-scientists-guilty-researching-while?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3016267/chinese-scientists-guilty-researching-while?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 Jun 2019 11:15:13 +0000