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Concerns of various sectors of Hong Kong society need to be addressed and suggested improvements to legislation considered.
The Ministry of State Security kept a secretive presence for years, but now it is on social media and creating a more high-profile public image. It has every reason to expand its public reach, but it must be more mindful of the potential impact of its daily musings on political and economic matters.
While US security moves only target Chinese investments and trade, China’s responses are rattling investors globally. For a start, Beijing must tamp down its high-profile anti-espionage campaign and review its exit ban.
Foreign businesses in China are concerned about crossing ‘red lines’, so the onus is on the central government to clearly explain the dos and don’ts.
- German authorities accuse assistant to Maximilian Krah, the AfD’s top candidate in European elections, of working for Chinese spy service
- The news comes just a day after Germany detains three people suspected of passing hi-tech secrets to Chinese state security ministry
Developments hours apart come amid rising anxiety in some European capitals over the threat of Beijing’s surveillance practices.
Three German nationals were arrested and two men in Britain were charged.
Intelligence officers have been sent to investigate potential national-security threats in Cagayan, where about 4,600 Chinese students reportedly live.
The initiative, launched under then-president Donald Trump, was intended to fight espionage by Beijing, but was slammed as racist and trigger-happy.
Poland’s National Prosecutor said the man, arrested on Wednesday, was accused of being prepared to pass airport security information to Russian agents.
Dutch intelligence agencies first publicly attributed cyber espionage to China in February, when they said state-backed cyber spies had gained access to a Dutch military network last year.
Programme broadcast on state television discloses new details, punishments from espionage crimes that rocked the country.
Rocha, whose espionage activities continued until his arrest, was also given a US$500,000 fine.
The ex-US president has claimed without evidence that the law was used to spy on his campaign.
The WikiLeaks founder is battling extradition from Britain to the US, where he is wanted on criminal charges over the release of confidential US military records and diplomatic cables in 2010.
Latvia-based media group reported that members of a Russian intelligence unit had been placed at scene of reported health incidents involving US staff. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said report was baseless.
Police said the man, who was held with a bag containing six handguns and 200 bullets, had stayed at several hotels during his time in the country.
The US president says he will ‘never give up hope’ as he seeks the Wall Street Journal reporter’s release, 1 year after he was detained on spying charges.
UK judges delayed decision on Assange’s last-ditch extradition appeal bid amid concerns he could face death penalty in US. Russia’s foreign ministry said UK’s judicial system was a ‘mockery’.
Moscow court lengthened Wall Street Journal reporter’s pre-trial detention to June 30. US ambassador said Kremlin was using him and other US citizens as pawns.
If he eventually loses the appeal bid, the WikiLeaks’ founder will have exhausted all UK appeals and will be set to enter the extradition process.
Julian Assange has been indicted on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over his website’s publication of classified US documents 15 years ago.
Activity triggering first UK sanctions against China in three years also allegedly gathered data on millions of British voters.
Top spy agency urges Chinese citizens to step up cybersecurity as attacks by overseas agencies have been ‘rampant’ in recent years.
Legislation would block sale of government-issued identifiers, financial account numbers, genetic information and private communications like emails.
Klaus Pflugbeil, the operator of a China-based business that sells technology used in electric vehicles, was arrested on Tuesday in New York, prosecutors in Brooklyn said.
Washington and London stop short of declaring immediate countermeasures to ordinance covering 39 offences and using terms like ‘external interference’.
The US$1.8 billion Starshield contract could significantly advance the ability of the US military to spot potential targets almost anywhere on the globe.
Discovery of JP Dragon and the group led by Luffy stemmed from arrest of over 30 Japanese nationals in November 2019 for running a telecoms fraud scheme.
The arrest of Baek Kwang-soon comes as relations between Seoul and Moscow have deteriorated since the Ukraine war, while ties between Moscow and Pyongyang have grown closer.
The man identified by Tass news agency as Baek Won-soon is suspected of passing on information “constituting state secrets to foreign intelligence services”.
A pro-democracy blogger and spy novelist, Yang is an Australian citizen born in China who was working in New York before his 2019 arrest at Guangzhou airport.
Premier Li Qiang says Beijing will help unity ‘between the military and the government, and between the military and the people’.
