China sees foreign threats ‘everywhere’ as powerful spy agency takes center stage


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KEYT— By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — In a slick video marking the National Security Education Day, China’s top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere. As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion photographer, a lab technician, a businessman and a

CNN—China sees foreign threats ‘everywhere’ as powerful spy agency takes center stage. In a slick video marking the National Security Education Day, China’s top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere. As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion photographer, a lab technician, a businessman and a food delivery driver – he even sets up an online honey trap – to glean sensitive state secrets in various places and industries. “In the sea of people, you may have never noticed him. His identity is...

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com—China spy row: Edinburgh-born Christopher Cash charged with spying for China. A parliamentary researcher from Edinburgh has been charged with spying for China along with another man. Christopher Cash, 29, who attended George Watson’s College, was director of a policy group on Beijing co-founded by security minister Tom Tugendhat. He was also employed as a researcher by Alicia Kearns, chairwoman of the Commons foreign affairs committee. Cash, whose address is listed on official documents as Whitechapel, London, was arrested in Edinburgh last year and has now been charged...

BBC News—Germany grapples with wave of spying threats from Russia and China. Six arrests in quick succession show Germany is being targeted by spies but also that it is fighting back.