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Chinese espionage

  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    UK bans EVs from some military bases over Chinese spy fears

    Concerns that sensors in electric vehicles could be used to gather intelligence

    RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US congressional committee warns on new Chinese embassy in London

    Plans raise ‘significant’ security concerns for financial services industry, says Washington

    The Royal Mint Court office complex in London
  • Saturday, 15 February, 2025
    MI5 investigates use of Chinese green technology in UK

    Concern has grown at Beijing’s potential hold on strategic assets

    The sun sets behind wind turbines in East Sussex
  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    Federal Reserve
    Former Fed official accused of passing secrets to China

    Justice department alleges John Rogers accessed sensitive information including briefings and policy deliberations

    The Federal Reserve building in Washington
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Court names alleged Chinese spy linked to Prince Andrew

    Tengbo Yang has been banned from UK on national security grounds

    Tengbo Yang
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Alleged Chinese spy linked to Prince Andrew excluded from the UK

    Immigration hearing rules businessman had ties to prominent Britons that could be ‘leveraged for political interference’

    Prince Andrew
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    US-China relations
    China hails US release of citizen convicted over child pornography

    Former student freed as part of rare prisoner swap that Beijing said showed it would ‘never abandon compatriots’

    Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning speaking at a briefing in Beijing in 2023
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Industrial espionage
    China arrests South Korean chip engineer on espionage charges

    Move escalates battle over intellectual property theft between Beijing and Seoul in critical semiconductor sector

    Sunset over Swan Lake financial business district, Hefei city, China
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Industrial espionage
    FBI probes whether Silicon Valley venture firm passed secrets to China

    Hone Capital became one of the most prolific early investors in US tech start-ups

    Montage of FBI, Hone Capital and CSC Group logos
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Cyber warfare
    Germany blames China for ‘serious’ cyber attack

    Berlin says Beijing behind 2021 hack on precision mapping agency

    Chinese president Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Cyber warfare
    Australia accuses China-backed hackers of breaching government networks

    US, UK, Germany and Japan back report alleging APT40 conducted ‘malicious’ cyber espionage activities

    File photo illustration shows a map of China through a magnifying glass on a computer screen
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Silicon Valley steps up staff screening over Chinese espionage threat

    Google, OpenAI and Sequoia Capital push to improve security practices following high-profile spying cases

    Montage of Google, Sequoia Capital and OpenAi logos over the San Francisco skyline and the Chinese flag
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Political espionage
    Beijing says MI6 recruited couple employed by Chinese state agency

    Accusation follows recent arrests in UK and Europe targeting alleged Chinese espionage

    A UK flag and a Chinese flag on a pole with security cameras in front of a portrait of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square in Beijing
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Former UK soldier charged with spying for Hong Kong found dead

    Matthew Trickett was accused of assisting intelligence services in the Chinese territory

    The New Scotland Yard headquarters of the Metropolitan Police
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Three men in UK court accused of assisting Hong Kong intelligence service

    Second time new anti-spying laws have led to charges

    The New Scotland Yard headquarters of the Metropolitan Police
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Seeing spies everywhere

    Yes the west is paranoid, but that doesn’t mean they’re not out to get us

  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    News in-depth
    ‘Honeypots’ and influence operations: China’s spies turn to Europe

    Arrests in Germany and UK point to growing scale and ambition of Chinese espionage operations

    Logo of China’s Ministry of State Security, centre, silhouette of generic couple
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Europe Express
    How China’s Nuctech earned EU funds before being hit by EU raids Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Waiting for Emmanuel Macron’s words of wisdom

    Passengers walk next to Nuctech security scanners at the Brussels Eurostar train terminal
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    News in-depthPolitical espionage
    German spycatchers raise game against China and Russia

    Recent arrests only ‘tip of the iceberg’, with hundreds more operatives believed to be ‘up to mischief’ in Germany

    A composite illustration with handcuffs, a classified file, a person in shadows looking at a phone and the seal of the BfV
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    Political espionage
    German staffer in EU parliament arrested on China spying charges

    Employee of far-right AfD’s lead candidate is latest figure to be accused of passing information to Beijing

    A man walks near the entrance of the European parliament in Brussels
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Germany accuses couple of spying for China

    A husband and wife team allegedly conspired to smuggle sensitive military technology out of Europe on Beijing’s orders

    German interior minister Nancy Faeser
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    UK Government
    UK proposes crackdown on foreign security risks to university sector

    Deputy PM says government will examine new curbs around technology sharing and call in vice-chancellors

    Oliver Dowden speaking at Chatham House
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    China says UK businessman imprisoned for ‘providing intelligence’

    News of 2022 conviction will add to fears among foreign executives and professionals in the country

    Police outside a court in Beijing. China
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    News in-depth
    China’s feared spy agency steps out of the shadows

    Ministry of State Security pursues more public and political role as Xi tightens grip on nation

    A montage showing a woman’s silhouette in front of an emblem of the MSS and pages from a comic strip issued by the ministry
  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
    Bribery and corruption
    Belgium opens criminal probe into suspected Chinese spy

    Flemish far-right politician Frank Creyelman was an intelligence asset for Beijing for years, according to investigation

    Frank Creyelman, a former member of the far-right Vlaams Belang party
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