Meng Hongwei, the former Interpol chief, has pleaded guilty to charges of corruption in China. Arrested last October, Meng will receive the court’s verdict at a later date. The corruption charges During a trial at a court in Tianjin, Meng admitted to having received bribes to the tune of US$2.11 million by misusing his position ...
Mark Warner, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman, has accused Beijing of forcing Chinese students in the U.S. to act as spies, encouraging them to steal America’s technology and research. Student spies “The overwhelming number of counterintelligence cases in our country now involve Chinese nationals… The Chinese spy services are literally threatening Chinese families… If your ...
Hackers have broken into the computer networks of the Baltimore city government, encrypting critical files in the process. It will reportedly take the government several months to unlock all the files and get the systems running normally. The hackers Hackers demanded a ransom of 3 Bitcoins (US$23,300) to unlock the files for each system. For ...
An ex-CIA spy, Kevin Patrick Mallory, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sharing sensitive American intelligence with Chinese agents. Mallory spied on his own country in exchange for just US$25,000. This is one among the many ongoing cases of American intelligence officials colluding with Chinese spies. Betraying the U.S. Mallory was convicted by ...
The UK’s broadcasting watchdog, Ofcom, has initiated an investigation into the role of China Global Television Network (CGTN) in airing a forced confession of a British national. The complaint was made by Peter Humphrey and his wife Yu Yingzeng, an American national. CGTN Confession scandal In 2013, Humphrey and Yu were imprisoned by Chinese authorities ...
Pakistan is one of the few countries that have enthusiastically participated in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. However, the people of Pakistan seem to have invited unwanted troubles together with the infrastructure projects, as several Pakistani women are said to have been trafficked across the border as brides to Chinese men. Bride trafficking in Pakistan ...
In 2007, Jerry Chun Shing left the CIA to settle in Hong Kong where he started working for a tobacco company. He was not looking to be involved in espionage. In 2010, Chinese agents appeared and Jerry was soon tempted to betray the country he had served. The betrayal of the CIA The Chinese offered ...
The Chinese government seems to be determined to steal sensitive information from the U.S. administration and tech companies, as several cases of U.S. officials colluding with Beijing and spying for personal interests are coming to light. Spying for China 63-year-old Candace Claiborne once used to work for the U.S. State Department. But today, she is ...
During the initial phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), there was joy and hope among Pakistani citizens. They thought that their country would, at last, have some sort of economic stimulus that would bring prosperity. Fast forward a few years and that optimism is still alive, though in a diminished form. But in addition ...
A Chinese woman from Lujiang County has been arrested for killing her husband by stabbing him with a cleaver. His fault — he forgot to buy chicken legs. The couple lived with the husband’s mother, an arrangement that was a sore point in their relationship. Marriage and conflict The victim, Wu Shouchun, was one of ...
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